The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a…

— Donal Logue

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

— John Boyle O'Reilly

People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this…

— Richard Misrach

To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no…

— Jerry Spinelli

Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed…

— Shimon Peres

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers…

— Samuel Griswold Goodrich

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;…

— David Wroblewski

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

— Joseph Addison

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

— Philip Massinger

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here…

— Iggy Pop

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi