Desert Quotes
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Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.
Stuart Adamson
Big Country
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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Jessamyn West
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Arthur Erickson
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
Thomas Carlyle
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The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.
T. E. Lawrence
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When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.
Summer Sanders
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Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.
C. L. R. James
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men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn
Don Marquis
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If you were on a desert island and you could only bring along five records from the past five years, what records would you bring?
Cameron Crowe
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If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.
George C. Scott
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I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.
Dwight Howard
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.
C. S. Lewis
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The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.
John Steinbeck
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I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.
Edward T. Hall
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My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Arizona Muse
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on the creation myth This is a wonderful story that was told to the people in the desert, in order to distract them from the fact that they did not have air conditioning. I would love to have the faith to believe that it took place in seven days, but... I have thoughts. And that can really fuck up the faith thing. Just ask any Catholic priest.
Lewis Black
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I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.
James Turrell
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For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.
Ben Dolnick
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A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
Fritz Perls
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
Taisen Deshimaru
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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
Freya Stark
