Desert Quotes

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

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.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

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.

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.