Desert Quotes

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

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

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

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

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.