The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. – Noam Chomsky
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. – Melina Mercouri
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. – Emanuel Celler
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. – Mary Hunter Austin
When you’re on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it’s very much like my paintings. – Edward Ruscha
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
Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches. – David Hewson
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. – Mary Hunter Austin
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! – Golda Meir
‘Legion’ was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way. – Dennis Quaid
I have to say, if someone literally said to me, ‘You’re going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would bring?’ I would say, ‘It’s my concealer or you can just kill me now.’ I’ve thought this through! Because I would find, like, berries in a bowl and make blush. – Drew Barrymore
I didn’t want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that. – Garry Marshall
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, ‘I was a rich kid, and America’s been good to me.’ – Max Brooks
Games take years to make, and it’s important that when we launch, it can’t just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they’d rather not be competing at launch with all this other software. – Palmer Luckey
I’ve accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and dry and lyrical in its own way. – Edmund White
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. – Ella Maillart
The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing. – The Bible Isaiah 51:3
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it. – Erika Slezak
My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it’s military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long! – Nathan Kress
All of a sudden their husband’s dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing – and they’re heading through the desert at night. – Nicholas D. Kristof
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. – Peter O’Toole
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. – Michael Palin
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark. – Mia Sara
When you’re a little kid, you are small, your life is small – and you’re terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder. – Janet Fitch
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there’s a tented camp called Jack’s Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs – you feel like you’ve just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. – Mark Burnett
The first song is called ‘London.’ It’s about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. – Neil Tennant