Desert Quotes

The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

I had top-secret clearance and everything. I was working on a couple of projects that would keep me involved in Desert Storm. I was in the mix, which is scary.

Life is short...eat desert first!

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

In the desert, the only god is a well.

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.

It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.