Quote by yann martel Download Open image ““the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.”” — yann martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a… — Freya Stark 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
“A camel in distress isn’t a shy creature. It doesn’t hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn’t phone up old friends… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Many Englishmen have written about camels. When I open a book and see the familiar disparagement, the well-worn humour, I realize that the author's… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
“Number of camels it would take for a man to buy me: every camel in the world.” — Sarah Reiley Copy Share Image
“They didn't tell Miles what their destination was. He only knew they traveled south, and he'd as soon have done so on a mode… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he… — Idries Shah 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
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
