Quotes with elephant

  • There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

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  • Noel Coward I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Havelock Ellis It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Groucho Marx One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • David Attenborough The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
    David Attenborough
    English veteran broadcaster and naturalist (1926 - )
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  • Liu Shao-Ch'I There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
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  • Abraham Lincoln When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
    Recollections of the Civil War (1898) door C.A. Dana
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Frank Zappa Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Pablo Picasso God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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