Jacques Monod Quotes

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

...the elephant smoked too much.

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.

I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.

I can't mate in captivity.

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 know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.