Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?
I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.
The elephant smoked too much. (explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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 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.
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.
Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.
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.
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.
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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.