Trunk Quotes

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. (John von Neumann)
Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." View quote
Freeman Dyson
Theres nothing sexy about skin and Bone, Urgh, you gotta have some junk in the trunk. View quote
Amy Lee
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world. View quote
Ramakrishna
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. View quote
Metastasio
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. View quote
Aeschylus
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree. (Nick Vujicic)
There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. View quote
David Benioff
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. View quote
Neil Jordan
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. View quote
Marguerite Young
Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own. And let the vanquished pedant hold his tongue, for there are no lands in which a man may take greater pride than in our long-suffering American republics. View quote
José Martí
It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo. View quote
Steve Martin
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. View quote
Pope Paul VI
I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it. (Kristen Bell)
You wore out a brand new trunk, packin' and unpackin your junk. View quote
Hank Williams
Nothung, Nothung, envious sword - what is the sword Nothung, but that unbreakable legacy which Siegfried, as the only son of the father, re-tempers in the fire of youth. What else, but the symbol of the primal-sword (primal-Phallus!) The primal-father has stuck this primal-sword into the trunk of the primal-tree, and whoever pulls out this sword wins a woman with it - as bride and sister! These are no symbols of sexual-abstinence! View quote
Theodor Reuss
[carving a sculpture in wood] is such a sensual pleasure when blow by blow the figure grows more and more from the trunk. View quote
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk. View quote
Sarah Waters
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