Elephant In The Room Quotes

Elephant In The Room Quotes by Karen Joy Fowler, Ani DiFranco, Lenny Kravitz, Michael Shannon, Randy Pausch, Ellen Wittlinger and many others.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
Karen Joy Fowler
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society?
Ani DiFranco
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
Lenny Kravitz
Let’s point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can’t think of any.
Michael Shannon
When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
Randy Pausch
when there’s an elephant in the room, you can’t pretend it isn’t there and just discuss the ants.
Ellen Wittlinger
Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we’re actually happy.
Aldis Hodge
The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.
Mary Portas
And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don’t go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I’d grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.
Cecelia Ahern
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite – or too devout – to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.
Richard Dawkins