The Camel S Back Quotes

#1. If there's one lesson that I've been taught it is that when it comes to the bad, everyone wants to be a drop in the ocean. Insignificant and without fault. They want to be a drop instead of the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Kay Whitley

#2. 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

#3. It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Charles Dickens

#4. Hey, new girl. You know the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the same thing as the last straw?

Stephanie Danler

#5. Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Brenda Holloway

#6. Why did one straw break the camel's back?
Here's the secret:
The million other straws underneath it.

Mos Def

#7. People are my greatest resource.

Tony Robbins

#8. Never miss a party ... good for the nerves
like celery.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. she was thinking about

Kate Eberlen

#10. This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Joseph Goebbels

#11. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

Sam Altman

#12. But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat raising vapours of leather. The warped image of myself in the side mirrors, so I caught only the quantity of hair, the freckled skin of my shoulder. I took on the shape of a girl.

Emma Cline

#13. soothing seemed to work and soon the grunts petered away in to the rhythmic rasping of animal slumber. To keep the camel calm, he removed his saddle and unstrapped the heavy bag from its back, and took out his robe. In

Tony Wilson

#14. It is a new year....It is time to get...back on the camel"
-Mr.Black

Jennifer Niven

#15. I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.

Tennessee Williams

#16. Perry, I've wanted you since the moment I saw you. I'm not going to stop showing you off or rubbing it in to everyone I know, anytime soon ... You're mine. And you're mine alone. From now until the end of time.

Karina Halle

#17. 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.

Thomas Adams

#18. My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.

Emily Yoffe

#19. If you cannot defeat him and take his power, then you must kill him.
Apollo made it all sound so simple, like he was asking me to go to the store and pick up Crunchy Cheetos and if they didn't have them in stock, to get Cheetos Puffs. Insane.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#20. I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Emily Dickinson

#21. Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#22. Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#23. The rabbit presses back her ears, Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes And crouches low: then with wild spring Spurts from the terror of his oncoming To be choked back, the wire ring Her frantic effort throttling: Piteous brown ball of quivering fears!

D.H. Lawrence

#24. I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Christopher Eccleston

#25. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

Jennifer Niven

#26. I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place.

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: - What is the little one's name? - His name is Jimi Hendrix. - Hooray, I wake from yesterday! - Inshallah! he called out.

Patti Smith

#28. With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Mark Sheppard