The economy is the silent elephant in the room.
How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?
If you've got a great crew it's intense, but its quite short. 'The Elephant Man' was longer than most, for an independent film. That was a 14 week film. But it was because of the intrinsic difficulties. We had to invent a different way of filming, because the makeup was so long. A working day for me with a full makeup on was nineteen hours. So obviously you couldn't do that twice running.
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker then that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.
I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.
Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.
I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.