Desert Quotes - Page 27

• The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Loneliness, Men, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

  Max Brooks

  Kids, America, Storm

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• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

  Max Brooks

  Summer, Thinking, Choices

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

  Stafford Cripps

  Axes, Evil, Design

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• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

  Waris Dirie

  Animal, Long Ago, Hands

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• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  Walton Goggins

  Journey, Long, Water

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• When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

  Mike Greenberg

  Trying, Providence, Aspiration

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• You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Ocean, Fire, Clouds

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• The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.

  Frank Waters

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

  Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

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• All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.

  J. A. Spender

  Men, Oasis, Track

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• Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world.

  Michael Shaara

  Hate, Home, Rocks

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.501, Ballantine Books

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• She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange exotic breed. Not that she did not have enough animals. She had collected several wild and broken animals that, in a way, had become exotic by their breaking. Their roof would have collapsed from the number of birds who might have lived there if the desert hadn't killed three- quarters of those that tried to cross it. Still every animal that came within a certain radius of that house was given a welcome-the tame, the half born, the wild, the wounded.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Animal, Years, Numbers

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Collected Works of Billy the Kid”, p.35, Vintage

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• A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

  Sijie Dai

  Country, Wind, Sky

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• Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

  Katherine Applegate

  Oatmeal, Storm, Battle

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• A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

  John Owen

  Saving, May, Sin

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.101, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South?

  Johnny Knoxville

  Men, Trying, Tape

  "Jackass". Action, Comedy, Reality-TV, www.imdb.com. (2000–2002).

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• If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Fighting, America

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• I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Tides, Kind

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• If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Long, People

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• The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Kuwait, Storm

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• Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152

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• I walked in a desert.
  And I cried,
  ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’
  I cried, ‘Well, But -
  The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

  Stephen Crane

  Voice, Horizon, Heat

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

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• For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

  Michael C. Burgess

  Kings, Children, Marijuana

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• Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

  Zane Grey

  Eye, Rivers, Red

  Zane Grey (2015). “Western Classics Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, The Mysterious Rider, The Border Legion, Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and more”, p.5023, e-artnow

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• I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert

  Diana Dors

  Believe, Differences, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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