Camel Humps Quotes & Sayings

Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth - their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel's bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can replace astonishingly quickly, as they are able to drink up to forty gallons in a single watering. (pp.69-70) — Michael Benanav

When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place. — Zeljko Ivanek

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well. — Gautama Buddha

Hope, he joked. Always the last to die. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

But you could also argue that there is something tragically heroic about fighting this battle he is doomed to lose.Is Ahab's hope a kind of insanity,or is it the very definition of humaness? — John Green

The boy stood on the highest knoll of the low country in the Western Kingdom of the Ring, looking north, watching the first of the rising suns. As far as he could see stretched rolling green hills, like camel humps, dipping and rising in a series of valleys and peaks. The burnt-orange rays of the first sun lingered in — Morgan Rice

Youth, Day, Old Age and Night Youth, large, lusty, loving - youth full of grace, force, fascination, Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? — Walt Whitman

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying. — Gena Showalter

I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial. — Camila Alves

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again. — DJ Shadow

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him. — Richard Dawkins