Elephants Quotes - Page 9

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.