Desert Quotes - page 19

Even in the greatest Westerns, the woman is imposed on the action, as a star, and is generally destined to be "had” by the male lead. But she does not exist as a woman. If you cut her out of the film, in a version which you can imagine, the film becomes much better. In the desert, the essential problem was to survive. Women were an obstacle to survival! Usually, the woman not only holds up the story, but she has no real character, no reality. She is a symbol. She is there without having any reason to be there, simply because one must have a woman, and because the hero must prove, in some way or another, that he has "sex-appeal." (Sergio Leone)
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. View quote
Jessamyn West
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. View quote
Saadi
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. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
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. View quote
Josh Homme
Take ye my solemn farewell ! O, my friends, Already night is darkening on my eyes ;- But is not Heaven most beautiful by night ? Thousands of stars shine in the kindling sky, Which is an azure desert during day. Thus do the gathering of eternal shades Reveal innumerable thoughts, half lost In the full daylight of prosperity. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, and mercy by Jesus Christ to his soul; when he is convinced of his utter unworthiness and desert of hell, and can never expect any thing from a just and holy God but damnation, how do the first dawnings of mercy melt and humble him! View quote
John Flavel
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens; A lane to the land of the dead. View quote
W. H. Auden
Some say cavalry and others claim infantry or a fleet of long oars is the supreme sight on the black earth. I say it is the one you love. And easily proved. Didn't Helen, who far surpassed all mortals in beauty, desert the best of men, her king, and sail off to Troy and forget her daughter and her dear parents? Merely Aphrodite's gaze made her readily bend and led her far from her path. These tales remind me now of Anaktoria who isn't here, yet I for one would rather see her warm supple step and the sparkle in her face than watch all the chariots in Lydia and foot soldiers armored in glittering bronze. View quote
Sappho
New York. . . is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. View quote
Roland Barthes
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. (Washington Irving)
Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. View quote
Théophile Gautier
In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. View quote
Isaiah
Of Life only is there no end; and though of its million starry mansions many are empty and many still unbuilt, and though its vast domain is as yet unbearably desert, my seed shall one day fill it and master its matter to its uttermost confines. And for what may be beyond, the eyesight of Lilith is too short. It is enough that there is a beyond. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again. View quote
Paul Ricœur
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' (Steven Wright)
'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way. View quote
Dennis Quaid
I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm. View quote
Gabrielle Roth
Sometimes I wander under prehistoric skys Here she comes with a penetrating stare cold desert stars feel and sparkle like frost, they are so lost his seed of adulation is your butter and your bread, it's an exquisite corpse and its lips are red If you're alone and you're feeling blue, everyone in Persia probably feels like you do. ~ Lost. View quote
Steve Kilbey
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. View quote
Allen West (politician)