Desert Quotes

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

I usually head up to the mountains or out into the desert. Somewhere nobody is. There I can dig deep and find the core that got me where I am today. It's sort of like my reset button.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?

It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

There is no desert like being friendless.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the deserts.

I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.