Camels Quotes - Page 5

• Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

  Roger Ebert

  Clouds, Sky, Sailing

  Roger Ebert's review of "Cloud Atlas", www.rogerebert.com. October 24, 2012.

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• I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Whales, Shapes

  'hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [400]

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• Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say: Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.

  Chip Kidd

  Cousin, Sorry, Believe

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• Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

  Rose Macaulay

  Animal, Aunt, Climbing

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• A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

  Gordon R. Dickson

  Running, Sweet, Horse

  Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”

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• Camels are snobbish
  and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic--
  even murderous.
  Reindeer seem over-serious.

  Marianne Moore

  Sheep, Water, Reindeer

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.194, Penguin

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• A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Drug, Atmosphere

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• But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

  Alfred Doblin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Kings, Queens, Artist

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• 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.

  Richard Flanagan

  Details, Stories, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Action, Break, Surprising

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the effects on young people, on cancer, these candy cigarettes that they promised had nothing to do with kids, Joe Camel that they promised was focused on the, you know, 55-year-old white male smoker, which we know is wrong. And we finally got out of that. Why in the world would we want to create the same thing, just not Big Tobacco this time, Big Marijuana?

  Kevin Sabet

  Cancer, Kids, Marijuana

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Noses

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.

  Marlon Brando

  Girl, Squids, Octopus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

  Louis L'Amour

  Mind, Sirens, Body

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.126, Bantam

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• No one smokes because they like the way it tastes. If we did, they'd make cigarette-flavored cookies, candy, ice cream. What is this? Marlboro fudge with nuts? Give me a scoop of that, willya? She's gonna have the Menthol Swirl with the Camel chip.

  Kevin Pollak

  Ice Cream, Nuts, Giving

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

  Tom Callahan

  America, Cups

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• So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Horse, Moon, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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

  Edward Herrmann

  Giving, Nasty, Young

  Source: www.tribute.ca

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• That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Thinking, People, Hollywood

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• ... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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• Known to act a donkey on the camel-toe, then take the camel-toe and turn it into casserole

  2 Chainz

  Toes, Donkey, Casseroles

  Song: Yuck!, 2012

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• We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.

  Tom Shadyac

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Philosophy, Two, Egypt

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