I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water. — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.” — R.S. Lehner Copy Share Image
A quotation in the right place at the right time is like water in a desert. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The flexibility of the mind is like an oasis in the desert, creating miraculous salvation in a desperate situation where there is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“I sleep. In this room. In the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful.… — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty,… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
“I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t… — Julene Bair Copy Share Image
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. — Walter Elliot Copy Share Image
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert? — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
