The Desert Quotes
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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
The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.
— Arthur Symons
When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face. After coming out of the desert, all those demons become angels.
— Miguel Ruiz
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
We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars.
— Jessica Khoury
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
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
— Ian McEwan
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
The only reason of living only you. Within my desert you are my oasis, the sweetest chocolate
— Oasis
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
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
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
A woman of the desert knows that she must await her man.
— Paulo Coelho
The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.
— Richard Paul Evans
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
— Alexander Smith
May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.
— Pio Of Pietrelcina
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
— Erika Slezak
Things will get really screwed up, right?"
"Erm ... maybe."
"Maybe, like how?"
"Ever wanted to go sledding in the Mojave Desert? — Julie Kagawa
"Erm ... maybe."
"Maybe, like how?"
"Ever wanted to go sledding in the Mojave Desert? — Julie Kagawa
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
— Lord Byron
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses ... we engaged a spy.
— Zebulon Pike
Ahhhh. The comfort of a familiar routine out in the desert of unfamiliar exploration. Dark chocolate for the soul.
— Neil M. Hanson
perhaps he and this man, alone on the desert, driven there by life's mysterious and remorseless motive, were to see each other through God's eyes. His
— Zane Grey
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
She had always loved the stars. But in the desert of winter it was impossible to forget that they were cold, and distant, and did not care.
— Seth Dickinson
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes
— Cecilia London
I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.
— Daniel Tosh
Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.
— Floriano Martins
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
— John Carmack
The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.
— Ridley Pearson
A rose that blooms in the desert has the privilege of being the only flower for miles.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
— Jean Ingelow
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
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
— Tim Winton
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.
— Dylan Moran
The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.
— Robyn Davidson
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
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 desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
— Tahir Shah
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
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
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
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
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
lifes short eat desert first
— The Learning Company
The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote.
— Debora Greger
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
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
The Desert of Lost Things," Puck said dramatically. "Well, that's appropriate. We're here, aren't we?
— Julie Kagawa
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
— Hannah Arendt
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.
— Paul Ricoeur
We are the desert winter's breath, cold and hopeless
— Paul Pedroza
Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
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