The Wastelands Quotes

#1. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.

Melvin B. Tolson

#2. In all fairness, darlin', I should probably warn you that this ain't my first rodeo.

Cindi Madsen

#3. I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

Robin Thicke

#4. View every problem as an opportunity ...

Joseph Sugarman

#5. We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Flora Thompson

#6. The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring
all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?

Steven Erikson

#7. Men she thought, could make a clean break with a woman, could leave in the way Parveen's husband had. Or could even be left, like George and determine to make a life another way. It was women who longed to retain ties and connections, to mix things up in complicated ways.

Nell Freudenberger

#8. The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. Modern racetracks were consigned to industrial wastelands. One hundred and fifty years ago, Saratoga decided to make it the centerpiece of their town.

Natalie Keller Reinert

#10. When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

Albert Payson Terhune

#11. PARENTHOOD: ROLE OR FUNCTION? Many

Eckhart Tolle

#12. Looking closer at human beings, it becomes clear that each of us is a world of our own. Our forehead is a breezy meadow, our elbows are arid wastelands, our eyes are salty lakes, and our gut is the most amazing giant forest ever, populated by the weirdest of creatures.

Giulia Enders

#13. Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Andy Hargreaves

#14. In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different?

Stephen King

#15. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. KIDS IN DISTRESSED FAMILIES ARE GREAT repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told.

Mary Karr

#17. There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves.

Tim Winton

#18. For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.

Carol Berg

#19. Word on road is the clique about to blow. You ain't gotta run and tell nobody they already know

Drake

#20. I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.

Brad Stone

#21. What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Giacomo Leopardi