Desert Quotes · Page 11

If you have a target, you will walk more lively even in the middle of a desert!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A quotation in the right place at the right time is like water in a desert.

— Vikrant Parsai

“...anyone can make a desert and call it peace...”

— Kate Elliott

I would march across the desert to defeat my enemy.

— Jay Sean

“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.”

— R.S. Lehner

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

— Lord Byron

I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.

— Faraaz Kazi

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

— Graham Greene

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

— Thomas Gray

“...desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels,...”

— Robyn Davidson

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

— Steven Michael Quezada

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

— Anonymous

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known…

— T. E. Lawrence

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us -…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we…

— Roger Scruton

In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was…

— Annie Jacobsen

The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in…

— Sheila Cassidy

Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always…

— John Fante

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret…

— Anonymous

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a…

— Viggo Mortensen

I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that…

— Max Brooks

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on…

— John Lydon

“All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure…

— John Fante

I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on…

— Tom Robbins

So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or…

— Alistair Cooke

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a…

— Henry Fielding

“Perhaps, if you were in a laboratory of alchemy, this would be the right time to study the best way to understand…

— Paulo Coelho

“A desert is a lot like an ocean, if you replace all of the water with air. It stretches out and out…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about…

— Bucky Sinister

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where…

— Samuel Johnson

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

— Walter Elliot

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

— Tanith Lee

“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”

— Pat Conroy

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

— William Shakespeare

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

— Bear Grylls

“In the desert, words are a waste of water. In the ocean, speech will drown one.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

— Lykke Li

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

— Dwayne Hickman