Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.

Kehlog Albran

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Ralph Ward

York is on the inside now. Now that the camel has his nose under the tent, it's a whole new ballgame.

Willard Wigan

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

Ogden Nash

The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?

Hugh Laurie

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

Bible Bible

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

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

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.

Henry Mayhew

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

Rose George

I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.

Jeff Schulkens

He couldn't throw it for strikes, and he was really struggling with it, so we thought he should ditch it. Shows you what we know.

Greg Brenneman

It's hard for the same people who put you in the ditch to pull you out of it.

Calvin Coolidge

When you see 10 troubles rolling down the road, if you don't do anything, 9 of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.

Kerry Greenwood

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

Nancy Lessin

We had no idea the ditch in Crawford had such phenomenal acoustics.

Bob Ehrlich

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

Buzz Hargrove

But we're also far enough apart, ... that we could end up in the ditch tonight.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Deborah Eisenberg

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Donald Trump

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

Bill Bowerman

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Glen Flanagan

That would make it easier to scout, that's for sure.

Celso Amorim

That will make it easier for Brazilian firms to participate in infrastructure projects.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feeling something was about to go wrong. It wasn't a one-run game, so that made it easier for me to take.

Jay Marston

Val is doing very well. She got some experience last year as a junior. Now she's our go-to pitcher. She's making it easier on everyone.

Peter Roskam

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Alonzo Mourning

We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.

Marquis de Lafayette

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

Joshua Johnson

We have a lot of talent for a nonscholarship team. People just don't understand. They're thinking, 'nonscholarship, I-AA, midmajor.' Don't let that fool you. This is a whole other level. It doesn't get better than this.

H. Hart

Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

Uzi Landau

Who is the Palestinian fool who will sit in negotiations and will have to pay so that we evacuate territory, when he knows if he simply waits, Israel will evacuate the territory?

Charles Rogers

You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.

John Paxson

You can have a team full of guys who play hard and hustle, ... But let's not fool ourselves. You need talent to win.

Casper Dien

I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.

William Lashner

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.

Eric Schmidt

We just didn't really have that jump in our step tonight, we were very passive.

Joann Erenhouse

We have to jump on this as soon as possible.

Sasha Cohen

I think I was probably not nervous but just a little apprehensive. Ultimately, the jumps just weren't there.

Mike Wilton

Jump serves are good, but only if you keep them in play. No. 1 is a serving error. There's nothing worse.

Michelle Lamb

Jump ropes, come here to the skipping stones.

Christina Hendricks

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Noelle Quinn

I think she has one of the purest jump shots in the NCAA right now.

Justin Dentmon

I think people underestimate his jump shot, and he can drive. He?s a nightmare for any team.

William Whitelaw

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

will.i.am

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Anthony D'Angelo

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

Brendon Urie

I don't listen to a ton of rock music.

Bikram Choudhury

I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.

David Thewlis

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Bernadette Peters

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Bill Burr

I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.

Scottish Proverb

We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Turkish Proverbs

Part with your head, but not with your secret.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.