Quotes of: Desertion Keyword

No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.

Auliq Ice

Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.

Life

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

William Donaldson

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

Benedict Cumberbatch

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Gene Fowler

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Patrick McGoohan

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

Tom Felton

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Theophile Gautier

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

Lewis B. Smedes

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

Mary Hunter Austin

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

Gloria Swanson

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

George Carlin

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

Denis Thatcher

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

Joanne Froggatt

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

I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

Louie Schwartzberg

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

Doctor: Mr. Belrose? Tick: Yes? Doctor: Congratulations. It's a boy.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Mitzi: [to Felicia and Bernadette] What fun. Baby bottles of booze.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert