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Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
— Randy Savage
The planet's famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it's not just a desert. It's a desert so old it's literally rusting.
— Andy Weir
i am queen of percha, sullenest of the seven seas, Behold my dusky desert beauty". She wiped of her scarf and did a terrible belly dance.
— Soman Chainani
Criticism was heavy these days, and that one scrap of praise was like water in the desert.
— Kiera Cass
Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.
— J.K. Rowling
The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
— Dante Alighieri
The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.
— Arthur Symons
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
— Julia Ward Howe
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
— Emanuel Celler
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
— Paul Hoffman
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
— Cormac McCarthy
The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.
— Robert Jordan
companion together for friendship
— Friends Of The Desert Foothills Library
Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses
— Jerry Bridges
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
— Thomas Sowell
We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars.
— Jessica Khoury
What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.
— Richard Llewellyn
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.
— Will Rogers
You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?
— Don King
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
— Maria Mitchell
It [our best show] was this year, the 7th of January in Eilat, Israel; 6,000 people in the desert going absolutely mad!
— Tiesto
Actions over words always, otherwise silence.
— Rodrigo Garcia
In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.
— Michael Ondaatje
We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.
— Karen Thompson Walker
You can't fight the desert ... you have to ride with it.
— Louis L'Amour
A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it;
— Julian Barnes
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
— Etty Hillesum
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
lifes short eat desert first
— The Learning Company
We are the desert winter's breath, cold and hopeless
— Paul Pedroza
There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war.
— Michael Ondaatje
Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous.
— Marty Rubin
A woman of the desert knows that she must await her man.
— Paulo Coelho
The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote.
— Debora Greger
If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.
— Palle Oswald
The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. - An old desert proverb
— Melissa McPhail
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
— Morton Hunt
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.
— Paul Ricoeur
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
— Hannah Arendt
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
Amma Sarah knew that her spiritual power was infinite if she could truly forget herself and allow Christ to work through her.
— Kate Cooper
I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.
— Margaret Fuller
The Desert of Lost Things," Puck said dramatically. "Well, that's appropriate. We're here, aren't we?
— Julie Kagawa
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
— Tom Ford
Are you rage, wrapped in skin, tight like leather dried in the desert sun?
From: "The Comfort of Black — Carter Wilson
From: "The Comfort of Black — Carter Wilson
Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world
— Rinsai Rossetti
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
— Jean Ingelow
To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.
— Joseph Conrad
Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.
— Mark Helprin
We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.
— Yeonmi Park
Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.
— Sebastien De Castell
The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.
— Frederick Lenz
Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled. On
— Margaret George
It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
— Alice Hoffman
. . being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you." (Heb. 13:5)
— Priscilla Shirer
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
— Margaret Atwood
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. — Douglas Malloch
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. — Douglas Malloch
It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
— Frank Herbert
-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
— Anne Roiphe
The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water! — Kabir
when all around you there is nothing but water! — Kabir
Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.
— Lao-Tzu
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
— Dan Quayle
Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt.
— Peter Dickinson
One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.
— Mike Bond
The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.
— Dave Eggers
Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.
— Sting
She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.
— Honore De Balzac
Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.
— Edward Abbey
This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
— Gerry Rafferty
Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.
— Jan Brewer
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
— Tahir Shah
Thirst had driven him into the desert again,
— H.P. Lovecraft
I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.
— Carmen Boullosa
They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I
— Joe Abercrombie
They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything
— Ernest Hemingway,
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
— Tim Winton