Arabic Camel Quotes & Sayings

Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that. — Neil Gaiman

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas. — Anthony Foxx

Photographers are always imposing — Susan Sontag

I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I missed it."
"Nine cats? They can send you to prison for that."
He pushed his glasses back on his nose. "I'm calling him Murad, after the cigarettes."
"Never heard of them."
"They're an obsolete Turkish brand, popular in the 1910s and '20s. Murad means 'desire' in Arabic. The only brand that ever appears in a Cordova film is Murad. There's not one Marlboro, Camel, or Virginia Slim. It goes further. If the Murad cigarette is focused upon by the camera in any Cordova film. The very next person who appears on-screen has been devastatingly targeted. In other words, the gods will have drawn a great big X across his shoulder blades and taped an invisible sign there that reads FUCKED. His life will henceforth never be the same. — Marisha Pessl

To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid. — John Holt

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within. — Mahatma Gandhi

A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular. — Shawn Lawrence Otto

There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of us are led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory. If every love affair adds a certain weight to the camel's load, then we can expect the soul to slow according to the significance of love's burden. — Alain De Botton

Continue to live life to the fullest. — Auliq Ice

I felt the warmth of his gaze from the tips of my hair to the tips of my toes. — Fisher Amelie

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me. — Simone De Beauvoir

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds. — Warren Farrell

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place. — Francis Walsingham

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers. — Melissa Rosenberg

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Shakespeare feels very natural to me. — Bebe Neuwirth

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me. — Shaun White