Life Dumbo Quotes & Sayings

That dream was still in my head, that crazy dream about Katie and me on Dumbo the elephant and Mr. Dees walking in the clouds. When I opened my mouth, the dream was on my tongue, as was the feeling that I'd had ever since--the sensation that sometimes life was so wonderful it was scary, not to be trusted. — Lee Martin

That's your job. To make something out of nothing. To pull together all the disparate threads: recruiting (with no money), fundraising (with no reputation), and delivering joy (with no product). You must fabricate the chicken and the egg. Simultaneously. — Dan Shapiro

I don't deny that impulse drew us together, but while physical gratification began and ended it for you, in making love, dumbo here - - ' she jerked a thumb at her chest ' - was also demonstrating that she cared.'
His tongue moistened his lips. 'You're very up-front, aren't you?'
'You mean none of your other rejects have ever looked you in the eye and complained?' Sian queried. She might have made things easy last night, but she refused to make anything easy for him now. 'I suppose you'd prefer it if I shrugged my shoulders, muttered something about it being nice while it lasted, and filed the experience away under lessons learned? Well, sorry, but for me, and for most women if they're honest, going to bed with someone is a darn sight more complicated than that! — Elizabeth Oldfield

We have then walked, played, or worked " enough," so we desist. That amount of fatigue is an efficacious obstruction on this side of which our usual life is cast. But if an unusual necessity forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before. We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed. — William James

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it. — J.G. Holland

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant. — Thomas Merton

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy. — U.G. Krishnamurti

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it. — George Eliot

I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan. — Judah Friedlander

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species. — Nigel Hamilton

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain. — Gisele Bundchen

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. — Ridley Scott

I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I'd flop around down there at
peace. The big concerns of my life would be what sort of bottom-coating slime to feed off of - that's not so different from now - plus I wouldn't have
any natural predators; then again, I don't have any now, and that hasn't done me a whole lot of good. But it suddenly makes sense: I'd like to be
under the sea, as an octopus. — Ned Vizzini

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. — Vicky Beeching