“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”
Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”
Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
“Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea”
Gene Spafford (1956) American computer scientist
Gene Spafford's Personal Page: the Quotable Spaf http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/quotes.html <br class="br">Context: Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Mīrābāī, in “Christian Mysticism East and West: What the Masters Teach Us “, p. 122
Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
NDTV NDTV http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-is-a-beehive-rahul-gandhi-tells-india-inc-350053
“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
On a 1962 visit to India quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin
“The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, buffaloes, elephants and me.”
Patrik Baboumian (1979) German strength-athlete
From his print ad for PETA, in “‘Strongest Man’ Eats Plants, Loves Animals,” in peta.org (21 November 2011) https://www.peta.org/blog/strongest-man-eats-plants-loves-animals/.