Driest Desert Quotes

#1. I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Linda Pastan

#2. Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

William S. Burroughs

#3. On a globe it looks like a swollen California. Within that space, though, are twenty-thousand-foot peaks, the world's deepest canyon (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon), unmapped Amazon jungle and the driest desert on earth.

Mark Adams

#4. Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero ...

Charlotte Bronte

#5. The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#6. Each failure brings you one step closer to success.

Zig Ziglar

#7. I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#8. A piece of art that speaks to you can open windows in a room you hadn't even known was dark.

Lilah Pace

#9. I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work

John Geddes

#10. The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Don Drysdale

#11. I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

Jason Patric

#12. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

John Marsden

#13. I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)

Edward Abbey

#14. 5-6 blogs is too many for a fool to have; one is enough for a wise person

Tasha Turner