Desert Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image ““Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.”” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desert Love Michael-ondaatje Novels Romance The-english-patient
“Only in the desert can forgotten things still flourish.” — Stacie Shannon Denetsosie Copy Share Image
“The desert doesn't care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.” — Deanne Stillman Copy Share Image
“...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere...” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
“I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker 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 His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak On a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image