Quotes About Bedouins

#1. 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

#2. Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Richard Francis Burton

#3. The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.

Stewart O'Nan

#4. There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.

David Foster Wallace

#5. I do not mind Bedouins, - I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades.

Mark Twain

#6. I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.

John Rhys-Davies

#7. What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

Haile Gebrselassie

#8. It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.

George Clooney

#9. Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

Aristotle.

#10. I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Andrew Lincoln

#11. Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.

Jose Andres

#12. It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. He gave me lies, and for him, I closed my eyes.

L.J. Shen

#14. The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

Manuel Rivas

#15. The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

Man Ray

#16. When I saw you with Puck, the day you came to the Nevernever ... "
"The day you tried to kill us," I reminded him.

Julie Kagawa

#17. Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Luc De Clapiers

#18. That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

Jimmy Breslin

#19. I think Shehnaz was right. In the end it wasn't about the Poet, or me or anyone. It was about a minute, five minutes, ten minutes in which she believed, with utter certainty, that she simply could not endure any more.' It seemed impossible, already, to have denied this truth for so long.

Kamila Shamsie