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Desert Quotes

When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country’s northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

– Hanya Yanagihara

I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there – instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.

– Hannah Simone

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

– Haniel Long

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

– George Grey

Where most of the country is, well, hot – from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south – Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.

– Hanya Yanagihara

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

– Herb Ritts

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

– George Ball

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it’s like the Saharan desert. You can’t even see across it.

– Henry Rollins

I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you’ve lived there, you become that way anyway.

– James Turrell

My hair looks so good out in the desert, it’s unbelievable. It’s, like, perfectly not frizzy.

– Jenny Lewis

The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe’s finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.

– John Burnside

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn’t make much difference. But now I’ve done my 40 years in the desert.

– James Turrell

The craziest place I’ve probably ever visited while filming would have to be Jordan. I did a small test shoot for a test movie. We arrived in Jordan, and we stayed in Amman for a night. Then we drove down for three hours into the middle of the Wadi Rum Desert, which is in the absolute middle of nowhere. It was insane.

– Isaac Hempstead Wright

New York is the great stone desert.

– Israel Zangwill

We’ve seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We’ve seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

– Hod Lipson

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can’t put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

– I. M. Pei

I think it’s important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

– Joel Salatin

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

– Jim Elliot

I’ve been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn’t do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don’t think I’d want 10 songs to bring with me.

– John Lydon

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

– Julia Ward Howe

The ‘Desert’ sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.

– Isabella Bird

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it’s so crowded.

– Jim Fowler

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I’d never let that happen. If it does, I’ll go and live on a desert island for a year.

– Anna Friel

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it’s a fun place to live.

– Bill Burr

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

– Charlotte Rampling

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

– Ang Lee

Yeruham’s small. You walk five minutes, and you’re in the desert.

– Alexander Gould

A movie I must have seen 10 times is ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull.’ It’s an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull.’

– Bertrand Piccard

In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

– Brunello Cucinelli

In 2001, Katie Couric told ‘Today Show’ audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened – that it was staged in the Nevada desert.

– Annie Jacobsen

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