Desert Quotes

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

A desert is a place without expectation.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.