Camels Quotes - Page 3

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was in West London, in an old Gillette factory. You'd go into the factory through the security, and then there were a lot of camels and goats. Most sets are really dull, but this was fantastic.

I was hanging out in gers [yurts] with these Kazakh sort of Bedouins. Drank nasty-ass camel milk. The drive [from the Souther Gobi to Ulan Bator] is insane. It's like The Road.

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.