Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. — Max Beerbohm
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river… — Louis L'Amour
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and… — Lucretius
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere… — Larry Harvey
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. — Nathaniel Branden
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin… — Plutarch
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert… — Nicholas D. Kristof
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley,… — Jan Morris
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the… — Norman Mailer
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no… — Robert C. Solomon
What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is… — Rudy Rucker
Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in… — Jack Handey
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were… — Jack Handey
I guess more bad things have been done in the name of progress than any other. I myself have been guilty of this. When I… — Jack Handey
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands… — John Milton
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart… — Terri Windling
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful… — George Graham Vest
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love. — Samuel Beckett

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