Quotes About Oasis

#1. Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Neal A. Maxwell

#2. Hey! Remember the '90s?
The Clintons were in office, everybody was using AOL, Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri did "the Cheerleaders" on SNL, and everybody thought Oasis was fantastic.
In hindsight, we were all a bunch of potato-salad-eating jackasses.

Julie Klausner

#3. Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.

Henri Murger

#4. Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

Damon Albarn

#5. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

James Marcus

#6. I will always be an Oasis.

Liam Gallagher

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

Auliq Ice

#8. Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

Woody Allen

#9. It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS."

- Wade Owen Watts
Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

#10. The only reason of living only you. Within my desert you are my oasis, the sweetest chocolate

Oasis

#11. What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

Robert Charles Wilson

#12. Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles.

Bill Maher

#13. She repainted the house to resonate year round with a summertime oasis in floral colors from the backyard garden - her ceremonial grounds - keeping her in her roots of greenness.

Jazz Feylynn

#14. It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody.

Noel Gallagher

#15. If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

Noel Gallagher

#16. Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier

Tom Waits

#17. I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Laura Whitcomb

#18. If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah ... fair enough ... gotta go home now.'

Noel Gallagher

#19. He's like a cesspool in the midst of my creative writing oasis.

Sandy Hall

#20. Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and dollar stores, lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV).

Juliana Birnbaum Fox

#21. There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.

Melissa De La Cruz

#22. My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. To us, it was much more than a game or an entertainment platform. It had been an integral part of our lives for as far back as we could remember. We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge.

Ernest Cline

#23. Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.

Thomas Hardy

#24. You found your God in a paperback,
You get your history from the Union Jack.

Oasis

#25. The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together.

Fritz Nordengren

#26. Love can be a small oasis in the middle of a dry, heartless world.

Jose N. Harris

#27. Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS.

Ernest Cline

#28. Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust.

Jonathan Dunne

#29. My first glimpse of the Adelaide Oval was given through the Victor Richardson Gates and up the ramp, and there it spread out before me, a green oasis. It was like another world opening up.

Barry Nicholls

#30. I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

Sonny Rollins

#31. But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

Paulo Coelho

#32. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

Noel Gallagher

#33. America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

Dinesh D'Souza

#34. These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols. Most items only cost a few credits, but since they cost nothing for GSS to manufacture, it was all profit.

Ernest Cline

#35. An extraordinary guy can never have an ordinary day

Oasis

#36. I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

Maria Muldaur

#37. Oasis were the last great, traditional rock-n'-roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

Noel Gallagher

#38. I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Pete Waterman

#39. Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Khalil Gibran

#40. True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Noel Gallagher

#41. Lourdes
Poetry is my Lourdes ~
a spiritual oasis where I come to heal
in the divine power of words.

Beryl Dov

#42. I wouldn't like to interview John Lennon, no, because I'd ask him one question and it'd go to another thing and I'd end up licking his face.

Liam Gallagher

#43. A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

Ken Doherty

#44. On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

Paulo Coelho

#45. One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.

Dave Chambers

#46. The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.

Lynda Resnick

#47. Many Castles
On
My
Travels
i have been
A guest in
Many castles
Yet the
Monument
Which i
Find
Divine
Is the oasis
Where the heart
And the silence
Intertwine.

Silent Lotus

#48. Sharp-angled blades of sunlight sliced open the heavy green canopy above, bleeding lemon-yellow splashes of warmth and light into the cool shade of my private oasis. Here,

Beem Weeks

#49. Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Edward Abbey

#50. We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

Frederick Lenz

#51. When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

William Westney

#52. At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.

Simone De Beauvoir

#53. We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#54. I meet these kids in the street and they're shaking. But I' saying, 'I'm honored to met you.' It makes me cry. It's beyond special

Noel Gallagher

#55. Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Fernando Botero

#56. And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is really very small - a tiny blue and green oasis of life in a cold universe.

David Suzuki

#57. You learn more from your mistakes and failures than from any degree of success. Success can only be grasped for a moment before it becomes a distant oasis not to be found again unless you thirst for the knowledge found in the well fed by your mistakes and failures.

Brian Michael Good

#58. Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

Noel Gallagher

#59. You will have power and wealth, but what are these to a scholar? You will end your life an oasis in a desert of ignorance.

Dorothy Dunnett

#60. I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene.

Isla Fisher

#61. I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

Noel Gallagher

#62. The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis.
The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

Zig Ziglar

#63. Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Noel Gallagher

#64. In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

Colette

#65. The land of opportunities that appeared greener when they were on the other side of the world deceptively veiled the harsh terrains which could only be transformed into fertile oasis with the passage of time and tough grind.

Neetha Joseph

#66. Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

Brandi Carlile

#67. Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life.

Dalai Lama XIV

#68. Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#69. Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Lenny Kravitz

#70. There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people jumping up and down, drunk to the music.

Noel Gallagher

#71. Loneliness is a desert. Solitude an oasis.

Ted Agon

#72. The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

Israel Shenker

#73. These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one: READY PLAYER ONE

Ernest Cline

#74. Morrow [ ... ] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

Ernest Cline

#75. I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool.

David Bowie

#76. Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

Allen West

#77. I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#78. Though blue sky and the road's yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

John Charles Pollock

#79. The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe.

Norman Geisler

#80. I'm Liam Gallagher and I'm in Oasis. The whole world is jealous of me. It should be.

Liam Gallagher

#81. All around the walls there are bookcases. They're filled with books. Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no boxes. No wonder we can't come in here. It's an oasis of the forbidden.

Margaret Atwood

#82. The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

Will Rogers

#83. I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

Trace Adkins

#84. Now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

Ernest Cline

#85. You and I are gonna live forever

Noel Gallagher

#86. Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Kahlil Gibran

#87. The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

Jason Calacanis

#88. I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. Sometimes these desert lines are simply the only way to the next oasis, which is far more lush and beautiful after the desert crossing than it could possibly have been without it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#89. I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

Tom Stoppard

#90. But everything Had changed , the oasis would never again have the same meaning it had had only yesterday . it will no longer be a place with fifty thousand palm trees and three hundred wells . from that day on , the oasis would be an empty place

Paulo Coelho

#91. Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.

Elizabeth Camden

#92. Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

Boris Trajkovski

#93. Searching for oasis within an oasis is the height of blindness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.

Halle Berry

#95. You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

Anais Nin

#96. Looking for an oasis on earth? You fool! Earth is already an oasis in the space!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#97. A dying scream makes no sound,
Calling out to all that have ever known
Here am I, lost and found
Calling out to all

Oasis

#98. The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

Tod Machover

#99. They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.'
I've never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.

Leanne Hall

#100. It is, but we can only help people by giving less than we take away from them. We enlarge the oasis by increasing the desert. That is the science of time and housekeeping. Some call it economics.

Alasdair Gray