"What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel"
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"Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant."
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"Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage"
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"There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time."
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"To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant."
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"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant."
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"I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant."
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"China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'."
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"In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over."
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"Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store."
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"So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire."
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"The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate"
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"Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance."
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"This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion."
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"Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly."
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"The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant."
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"The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"
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"As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian."
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"In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd."
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"We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not."
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