Idiom Quote by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Download Open image ““Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced.”” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idiom
Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“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… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You take one step closer and I'll slit your throat, you mung-encrusted camel-fucker.” — Peter Bagge Copy Share Image
“Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Consider me an open book" dev said. "Mi casa es su casa." Dev crinkled his nose and smelled the air. "Err, mi nose es… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Casey was in the bed with Ali. And that was where I drew the line. Because eww.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've been thinking about a lot while writing this essay. In it, Buffy sacrifices her… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Someone tried to kill me, and I’m going swimming. I’m going swimming, because it doesn’t matter. I’m going swimming, because I don’t matter. I’m… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“If I had a nickel for every time I almost died, I would have been driving to school in a Ferrari and flying off… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“I did a quick injury check on my organs and bones. The routine was familiar, one I paced my way through every other morning… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“I had to protect him. And me. So I took everything I felt for the pack. I saw the bond, and instead of closing… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“You look like someone who's about to do something highly inadvisable. And God knows, if there's something inadvisable going on, I want in.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Nobody liked my plan. "You want us to split up?" Chase asked, his brow wrinkling in obvious bewilderment. Lake echoed the sentiment, her voice… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
