Robert A. Heinlein quote: "I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS

How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.

Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER

People ask me about staying here. I think they assume that I wouldn't want to come back to a pla...
JESMYN WARD

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON

What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Alex said, "Okay, I need to know something. Why the Camel Club?"

Stone answered, "Because...
DAVID BALDACCI

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.
MEGAN FOX

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON

[Allegations] that this is a matter of persecution, or sour grapes, on the part of the prosecution a...
GEOFF GAUL

Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

so, what are you in for? MANSLAUGHTER!!! I SLAUGHTERED A MAN!! JUST LIKE A PIG!!! PUT HIM ON A SPIT ...
BRIAN REGAN

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? When I say that a uniform should be worn to the right p...
DANIEL BARENBOIM

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS

Clearly, Mr. Black is walking a fine-line with citizens at this point. Most appear equally divided, ...
HUNTER BACOT

Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN

Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD

Roscoe Arbuckle liked to have a good time. Calling him a libertine might be a bit extravagant, I thi...
DAVE DOUGLAS

You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT

What I can do, really, is ask independents to look at him, and I hope that I have the credibility wi...
JOHN MCCAIN

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spir...
LISA RANDALL

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always co...
WAYNE WONDER

They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want th...
MAHER ARAR

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE

His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG

A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all m...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Some people haven't really seen him. They might hear maybe this guy's the best back in the league an...
AL MICHAELS

Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in...
THE BOSTON GLOBE

What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER

So, I called Tim and said, 'You know, I think this is a mistake.' He called back with that response ...
CODY KNOTTS

Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to rememb...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 yea...
MACKLEMORE

I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is i...
AARON MARCUSSON

Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG

Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have...
RICK RIORDAN

When I talk to kids about this place, I spend all my time talking about what a great place this is, ...
HEATH SCHROYER

What happens is that during each project people get excited about the next project, and they want to...
BILL CAMP

Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the...
DEYTH BANGER

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What&#...
DUFF GOLDMAN

So maybe there is a place in your life you wear out like a rut, or even better, like the soft spot o...
JODI PICOULT

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old,...
HENRY ROLLINS

People, who have real vision, are the ones who can see beyond death. These are the ones who have the...
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM

This is just a learning experience I suppose. It's something we can look at and work on correcting w...
BRIAN CRABTREE

Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON

What you are good at, you never do it free!
DEYTH BANGER

When I was working on 'Men of Honor' with Robert De Niro, there's a pipe that he has in ...
GEORGE TILLMAN, JR.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but...
LENA DUNHAM

So far as my clients are concerned, what they need to know is a great deal more information about wh...
ANN ALEXANDER

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY

I know just how devoted to this organisation you are. Draftees back in my day used to understand wha...
CHARLES STROSS

I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST

So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
Prim sounds about a thousand years old when s...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I toured the area this morning with (House Speaker) Dennis Hastert, ... Corn is about what you'd exp...
MIKE JOHANNS

I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You...
JEAN ANOUILH

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON

Our film's a sort of political action. Maybe 60 or 70 percent of what happens on screen is factually...
BAHADIR OZDENER

This is similar to the ones made in 1865, but the real ones were about six-foot longer, a foot highe...
HUB HUBBELL

I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We don't wa...
GLENN ANTIZZO

[Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var...
ALEX ADAMS

What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that y...
ELLEN ULLMAN

If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, th...
DONNA LYNN HOPE

We'd definitely have to take a look at what went wrong in Mankato. For some reason, things went sour...
DAVE KNUDSON

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS...

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so a...
DONALD JOHANSON

What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carr...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment a...
KATHY MATTEA

(The Department of Pesticide Regulation) could appeal it. They could go back and change the regulati...
BOB ROACH

When I saw him walking out of the locker room this morning, he looked (cranky). Maybe I'll ask him w...
KEN MACHA

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back...
PHIL ANSELMO

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I want him to be put to death so that he can just be taken away from this world. I believe in the de...
ABRAHAM SCOTT

An intelligent man wants to ultimately spend his life with a woman with whom he knows he shares comp...
C. JOYBELL C.

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am ...
JOHN GREEN

I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are ...
GUY PEARCE

I said to myself, 'What's wrong? What could fix this?' ... You would need someone with ability and t...
ANDY CURTIN

It doesn't really matter what place you are. I think he'll look back on this, when he's not so upset...
TOM ARLIS

I don't know what it like to raise a kid but even so, I want to believe that kids out there should b...
J C A ROWE

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that ma...
MARKUS ZUSAK

Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY

The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON

Qhuinn: "What is wrong with you, that you care so much about me?"
Blay: "What is wrong with you...
J.R. WARD

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich ma...
WILLARD WIGAN

I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place.

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I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place.

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