Quotes About The Desert Southwest

#1. The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.

Steven Magee

#2. When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

Mark Hamill

#3. Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Jackie Collins

#4. The luminous light that burns on the Arizona desert, out of long miles of untouched sage and sand. . . . Yes, that's where I want to be, on an observation car traveling swiftly into the Southwest. Losing myself in a shimmer of fine dust.

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

#5. I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.

Jim Carrey

#6. I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

Joy Harjo

#7. Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

Mitch McConnell

#8. I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

Terri Windling

#9. You wanted to see the world.
And yet, all I want is to see you.

Sade Andria Zabala

#10. Everyone needs the Holy Spirit to understand spiritual truths. I found that when we taught the Gospel in an uncomplicated way the Holy Spirit did not need a high I.Q. to reveal Himself.

Corrie Ten Boom

#11. You kissed my heart awake.

Georgia Cates

#12. For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

John Burnside

#13. You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

Cinda Williams Chima

#14. I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

Judith Krantz

#15. The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.

Ingvar Kamprad

#16. It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

Roger Mahony

#17. Fred Rice, gunslinger, badest hombre ever to grace the American Southwest desert since Pancho Villa.

Anonymous

#18. As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It's a magical place. The desert. I do understand people's criticisms, but it's a magical place and a beautiful city, even though there are a lot of things that are wrong with it.

Brandon Flowers

#19. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

Junot Diaz