A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room". — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? — George Washington Copy Share Image
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining. — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity… It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite… — David Lean Copy Share Image
“Where did you get in from?” she asked. “The desert.” “What do you do in the desert?” “Get hot.” — Nina Lane Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may… — Robert Scheid Copy Share Image
My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like,… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you… — Joseph P. Allen Copy Share Image
“Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark. — Mia Sara Copy Share Image
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
