The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For your sake, I hurry over land and water; For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of… — Steve King Copy Share Image
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden...… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“She looked into my eyes. I wanted to look away. But I didn’t. Her eyes were like the night sky in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover’s name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows… — michael ondaatje Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Fiona Bruce isn't some token middle-aged woman at the BBC. Alongside her, at 52, my former running partner Sophie Raworth is a… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
