Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.
Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
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.
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
If you want to fight in the UFC, you've got to realize that you are just an elephant in the circus. As soon as you ask for more peanuts, you have to go find a different circus.
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.
The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.
Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.
How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?
People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar's image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.
I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.
Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.
