Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself. Votes: 4
Maynard James KeenanRight now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert. Votes: 3
Dwayne HickmanI wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me. Votes: 3
Max BrooksWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. Votes: 2
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThis creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. Votes: 2
T. E. LawrenceThe task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Votes: 2
C. S. LewisI had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. Votes: 2
Ella MaillartThe desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. Votes: 0
Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. Votes: 0
Frank WatersCritical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. Votes: 0
Theophile GautierTalking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. Votes: 0
Walter ElliotReclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyWomen don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different. Votes: 0
EuripidesAmid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithWhen our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldNight comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesWhat draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyIt's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanSome people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. Votes: 0
Lewis B. SmedesMisfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacWhen they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness. Votes: 0
Zach WeinerNothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas Votes: 0
Mary Hunter AustinNothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. Votes: 0
Mary Hunter AustinNote to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. Votes: 0
John CarmackLeave me alone in the long desert forever, and I won't give up on my dreams." Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerWhat luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me. Votes: 0
Simon CowellOur reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert. Votes: 0
Albert CamusThey defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. Votes: 0
Gamal Abdel NasserFor forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus] Votes: 0
Osbert SitwellThis is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough Votes: 0
Mary Hunter AustinOmar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. Votes: 0
Peter O'TooleHulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. Votes: 0
Randy SavageAs distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air Votes: 0
Samuel GarthAny thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out. Votes: 0
Stephen KingThe desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. Votes: 0
Tahir ShahAll justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? Votes: 0
Thomas SowellMy hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy. Votes: 0
Jenny LewisI took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun. Votes: 0
Adam FerraraIf you have a target, you will walk more lively even in the middle of a desert! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up. Votes: 0
Campbell ScottWe desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BowenSome say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultFull many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. Votes: 0
Paul HoffmanI have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it. Votes: 0
Erika SlezakFull many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. Votes: 0
Jane AustenA lonely tree in the desert shares the same fate with the wise man amongst the ignorant! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanMay the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life. Votes: 0
Pio of PietrelcinaThe great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckThe desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. Votes: 0
Vera NazarianIf you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanShe has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawPersonality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island. Votes: 0
Kwame KilpatrickThe desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. Votes: 0
Tom HanksWe write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind. Votes: 0
Paolo BacigalupiThe house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible! Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyWas our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? Votes: 0
Ernesto SabatoI cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. Votes: 0
Li Bingbinga spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. Votes: 0
Pope Benedict XVIA house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain. Votes: 0
Norman BarrettI will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanThis city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul. Votes: 0
Gerry RaffertyIf you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranLet the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead Votes: 0
BeckExpediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliWe were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. Votes: 0
Hunter S. ThompsonZuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. Votes: 0
Max BeerbohmNever thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief. Votes: 0
Gene FowlerThose few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert. Votes: 0
Neal A. MaxwellFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Votes: 0
StendhalAnd something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert. Votes: 0
Janet EvanovichSaving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyThe house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWaiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home) Votes: 0
Henri NouwenWe will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert. Votes: 0
Thomas BerryMoses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. Votes: 0
Golda MeirMy heart was a desert You planted a seed And this is the flower This hour of sweet fulfillment Votes: 0
Leo RobinIs it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? Votes: 0
Dejan StojanovicThey were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy. Votes: 0
Zebulon PikeThe desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. Votes: 0
Jean BaudrillardShe thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in. Votes: 0
John Mark GreenThe desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it. Votes: 0
Liya KebedeHere, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Votes: 0
Etty HillesumI plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life. Votes: 0
Evan TannerYou put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole. Votes: 0
Lenny BruceThe desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. Votes: 0
Steven Michael QuezadaTo get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisOn the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. Votes: 0
Tom FordI don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty. Votes: 2 Joy Harjo
There are easier ways of making sense,the connoisseurship of gesture, for example.You hold a girl's face in your hands like a vase.You lift a gun from the glove compartmentand toss it out the window into the desert heat. Votes: 3 Billy Collins
Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM. Votes: 4 Lesley Manville
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. Votes: 4 Allen West
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena. Votes: 1 Bear Grylls