Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Flanagan

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.

Robyn Davidson

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Laurence J. Peter

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

Bible Bible

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

Karl Pilkington

If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic

Bible Bible

They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

Bible Bible

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

Saadi

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

Roger Clemens

just to try and look at the details of everything that happened.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

Ann Beattie

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

Eva Nogales

We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryotic mechanisms. Getting to the molecular details of these gets to the possibility of learning one mechanism versus the other so you can try and stop (the virus from attacking) the human cell.

Shawn Ashmore

I think, ultimately, those little details come through, even if it's just in my head.

James Mitchell

I think that's going to be probably one of the major stumbling blocks. Some of the details we're going to have to work out.

Dave Lockett

There aren't any details to discuss at this time. We're expecting that the team will go to the White House some time in the spring. As we get more information, we'll pass it along.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Russell Brand

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Rex Stout

Everything in a story should be credible.