For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“She also told me it wore down her spirit to live in the desert landscape that was parched by midsummer, to plant… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit… — George Grey Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes,… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our… — Thomas A. Edison 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
I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I… — Tim Rutili 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
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“Even so long after sunset, the sky in the west was touched with feather-strokes of crimson and black. The wind was blowing… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
