A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.
I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.
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.
It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.
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.
Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.
Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.
As soon as you enter Rajasthan, you are hit with colors. It's such a sensory experience. You see women in bright pink and yellow saris, camels pulling carts, historic forts - history on each and every corner.
When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.
Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!
I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle or a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, than for a politician to lay aside disguise.
See {629121} for the Christian religious quotation regarding the "eye of a needle."
I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
I smoke so much. Three packs a day... I went to the bathroom, a camel came out of my ass.
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.
No land suits Arab tribesmen except that which suits their camels.
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
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.
Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu
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.
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.