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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.
You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.
And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.
Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.
The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.
Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it.