Quotes of: Desert-island Keyword

Bernadette: [to Felicia] That's just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Cynthia: [to Bob] I no like you anyway. You got little ding-a-ling.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Mitzi: [to Felicia and Bernadette] Oh, get back in your kennels, both of you.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Shirley: Shit! All I can see is female impersonators.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Felicia: [to Frank and the boys] Who wants to see my map of Tasmania?

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Tick: [to Felicia] What sort of bent-childhood... did you have, Adam Whitely?

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Felicia: [to Tick] Oh! Oh, Mitzi! It's gabardine! I haven't seen gabardine for years!

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

When hiking in the desert you do not take along a full scale bridge, for just in case there might be a cloudburst.

Love

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

Zebulon Pike

Sionnach smiled in the way of the falsely modest and added, "Forgive me for not standing, but I can't find the energy just yet." the answering heat flare was enough to raise the temperature in the cave, enough to explain the fine sheen of sweat on Si...

Desert Tales: A Wicked Lovely Companion Novel

We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don’t) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose o...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

With every day that passed, the boy's heart became more and more silent. It no longer wanted to know about things of the past or future; it was content simply to contemplate the desert, and to drink with the boy from the Soul of the World. The boy an...

The Alchemist

I don‟t hate men,” she said, giving him a quick glance before returning her attention to keeping her horse in line. “I think you‟re a bit overrated, butthat‟s not hating . Men have ruled women and the world by virtue of their gender for sev...

The Sheik's Arranged Marriage (Desert Rogues, #2)

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the pri...

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of ...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solut...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

You need to respect people either good one or bad. Every person in this world have something good and something bad. You need to see the positive side of the person rather than the negative ones. By doing this you can never hate anyone in this world....

Nutan Bajracharya

Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

Desolation Island

I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.

Smog City

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

No Man Is an Island