“I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand? ” — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant. — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert? — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's… — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
“Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“We both keep walking in the desert, following a fragile dream of America.” — Terry Farish Copy Share Image
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
