Camels Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Insane, Milk, Nasty

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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

  F. E. Adcock

  Blessing, Views, Spirit

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• We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

  J. B. Priestley

  Coffee, Food, Eye

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• I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Real, Blow

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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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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