"If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense."

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Source : Lyall Watson (2003). “Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

Lyall Watson

#Elephants Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.”
“My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.”
“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
“In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.”
“A book is a machine to think with.”

Source : I.A. Richards (2003). “Principles of Literary Criticism”, p.7, Routledge
“The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.”
“The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.204, Penguin
“Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.”

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