Desert Quotes

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

New York is the great stone desert.

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.