Desert Quotes - Page 15

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!