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" A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. "

" A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming. "

George M. Church

" A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it. "

" An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water. "

" An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college. "

Andrew Sean Greer

" Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine. "

" Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. "

" But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. "

Isabella Rossellini

" Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking. "

" For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live. "

" God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. "

" God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. "

" I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image. "

" I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. "

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

" I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! "

Patrick Stewart

" I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man. "

" I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend. "

" I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny. "

" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. "

" If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky. "

" If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. "

" I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. "

" I have a face like the behind of an elephant. "

Charles Laughton

" I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. "

" I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. "

" I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.' "

" I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre. "

" I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine. "

" I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused. "

" I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp. "

Mary Ellen Mark

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