Quotes of: Desert Keyword

Dr. Zaius: The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.

Planet of the Apes

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Suzanne Somers

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

Jim Walton

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Maurice Jarre

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