A Quote by Robyn Davidson

There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.

Robyn Davidson

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Being Camel Lady Suppose Than Things Worse

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Robyn Davidson
Australian - Writer
Born: September 6, 1950

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

Irene Dunne

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

Fleur Adcock

I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in one way: As the lady who thought they were smarter than Albert Einstein. As the lady who thought they wrote better than William Shakespeare. As the lady who thought every picture they drew was a Rembrandt.

Judith Viorst

After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

Robyn Davidson

In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.

Warren Beatty

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

Kerstin Gier

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.

Ronald Reagan

I'm the Harvard guy everywhere, every day. There are worse things to be called, worse things to be known by I guess.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.

Groucho Marx

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.

Warren Beatty

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

Flannery O'Connor

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.