Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bible Bible

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

Karl Pilkington

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

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.

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.

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.

Saadi

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

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Penny Junor

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

Diane Ackerman

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

David Procopio

There are many details about this person and how she died that may be known only to her killer and little by little by us.

Alexandra Stoddard

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.