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

The planet's famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it's not just a desert. It's a desert so old it's literally rusting. — Andy Weir

i am queen of percha, sullenest of the seven seas, Behold my dusky desert beauty". She wiped of her scarf and did a terrible belly dance. — Soman Chainani

Criticism was heavy these days, and that one scrap of praise was like water in the desert. — Kiera Cass

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. — J.K. Rowling

The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

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. — Dante Alighieri

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth. — Arthur Symons

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. — Julia Ward Howe

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

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. — Paul Hoffman

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

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him. — Robert Jordan

companion together for friendship — Friends Of The Desert Foothills Library

Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses — Jerry Bridges

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell

We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars. — Jessica Khoury

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another. — Richard Llewellyn

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers? — Don King

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition. — Maria Mitchell

It [our best show] was this year, the 7th of January in Eilat, Israel; 6,000 people in the desert going absolutely mad! — Tiesto

Actions over words always, otherwise silence. — Rodrigo Garcia

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water. — Michael Ondaatje

We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain. — Karen Thompson Walker

You can't fight the desert ... you have to ride with it. — Louis L'Amour

A desert's a stupid place to put a river. — Paolo Bacigalupi

She's still taking on water. A desert blessing, an ocean curse. — John Green

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls. — Rosita Forbes

The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it; — Julian Barnes

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

lifes short eat desert first — The Learning Company

We are the desert winter's breath, cold and hopeless — Paul Pedroza

There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war. — Michael Ondaatje

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in. — Sheryl Crow

Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous. — Marty Rubin

A woman of the desert knows that she must await her man. — Paulo Coelho

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. — Ian McEwan

A tree looks a lot taller in the desert than it does in the forest. — PWP

The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote. — Debora Greger

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

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert. — Palle Oswald

The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. - An old desert proverb — Melissa McPhail

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt

the desert afternoon. It was a hundred and ten degrees, easy, — Rick Riordan

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again. — Paul Ricoeur

For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery. — Hannah Arendt

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Amma Sarah knew that her spiritual power was infinite if she could truly forget herself and allow Christ to work through her. — Kate Cooper

The witch snipped off her golden hair and cast her out into a great desert — Marissa Meyer

I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it. — Margaret Fuller

Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men. — Kurban Said

The Desert of Lost Things," Puck said dramatically. "Well, that's appropriate. We're here, aren't we? — Julie Kagawa

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

Are you rage, wrapped in skin, tight like leather dried in the desert sun?
From: "The Comfort of Black — Carter Wilson

Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world — Rinsai Rossetti

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ... — Jean Ingelow

To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint. — Joseph Conrad

Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water. — Mark Helprin

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) — Edward Abbey

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

We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free. — Yeonmi Park

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish. — Sebastien De Castell

The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here. — Frederick Lenz

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled. On — Margaret George

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. — Alice Hoffman

. . being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you." (Heb. 13:5) — Priscilla Shirer

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. — Margaret Atwood

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. — Douglas Malloch

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it. — John Flanagan

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness. — Frank Herbert

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje

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. — Anne Roiphe

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. — Lao-Tzu

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. — Dan Quayle

Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt. — Peter Dickinson

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

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. — Mason Cooley

One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain. — Mike Bond

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals. — Dave Eggers

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see. — Sting

She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands. — Honore De Balzac

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul. — Gerry Rafferty

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded. — Jan Brewer

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. — Tahir Shah

Thirst had driven him into the desert again, — H.P. Lovecraft

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings. — Carmen Boullosa

They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I — Joe Abercrombie

They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything — Ernest Hemingway,

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton

[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you. — Dylan Moran

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city. — Robyn Davidson