Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I have so little writing time, so I write while dinner bubbles on the stove, and get away to cafes when I can. It is good to have a small laptop to haul around. I wish I could admit to bizarre writing habits, you know, like "I can only write in the presence of my favorite pet elephant, who is my fount of inspiration," but the truth, alas, is far more mundane.
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it. . . Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant. ” “I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.
I wanted to work with an elephant.
Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . .
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.
Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll often go where he wants. How can one control the elephant? In part, this comes with maturity. In part, this comes with the development of your frontal cortex, so the frontal areas of the brain are especially involved in self-control, in suppressing your initial instinct to act. This is why teenagers are so impulsive. So it's terrible to allow the death penalty for teenagers, because they really don't have working brains yet.