I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it. — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made. — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
“And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the… — Eugene Sue Copy Share Image
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I guess more bad things have been done in the name of progress than any other. I myself have been guilty of… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
“...we all have our own deserts. Thet may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort! — John Vianney Copy Share Image
“It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. — Patrick McGoohan Copy Share Image
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live. — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so... — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
