Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda Meir
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and e...
Washington Irving
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel
Edward Abbey
I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it`s a relief. If I`m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
Viggo Mortensen
[On Hollywood] "The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don`t smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn`t taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy nightmarish set, built up in the desert."
Ethel Barrymore
[Morocco] "When I finished V for Vendetta (2005), I went for a few days as sort of a birthday present for myself. I went out into the desert and an amazing storm was taking place, which is so unusual in the desert. I ended up in a tent with the six strang...
Natalie Portman
[Morocco] "When I finished V for Vendetta (2005), I went for a few days as sort of a birthday present for myself. I went out into the desert and an amazing storm was taking place, which is so unusual in the desert. I ended up in a tent with the six strang...
Natalie Portman
[on living and working in Los Angeles] Los Angeles is like a desert. The only thing that exists is the work you do. You have that sense of living a precarious existence.
Jenny Agutter
Sam Troy doesn`t like authority. He doesn`t want anyone trying to control his life. He wants to guide his own destiny -- and in that desert patrol, he`s found a way to do it. That desert patrol is Sam Troy`s world. Anything that comes near it, that will e...
Christopher George
Sam Troy doesn`t like authority. He doesn`t want anyone trying to control his life. He wants to guide his own destiny -- and in that desert patrol, he`s found a way to do it. That desert patrol is Sam Troy`s world. Anything that comes near it, that will e...
Christopher George
Of the concept of God: "I don`t seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That`s why I never talk about it. I think it`s all here -- in the mountains and the desert. I don`t think God is a softie, either. In the end, it`s better i...
Carole Lombard
If you were stranded on a desert island, which four things would you need to survive? "I`d take a good book - Dante`s Divine Comedy, because you can never plumb the depths of that. I would also take a mask and snorkel so I could check out the fish, becaus...
Jamie Bamber
[December 1998] To hell with this stupid show business, this ridiculous showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look back and see a desert wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment. Everything was a fake.
Anthony Hopkins
On who she`d like to be stranded on a desert island with: "I`d say Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. They come across as lovely - so warm, so bright and so talented. I imagine that we`d have great chats. And, if we ever ran out of things to say to each ot...
Natasha Bedingfield
The definition of Sahara is `"to have no memory", and it`s true. When you go out in the desert, no matter what`s going on in your world, you see the dunes and nothing else, and you think of nothing else.
Steve Zahn
You ever been to Oslo? ... It`s like that, but prettier. It`s between a hill and a river, a ridiculously green and idyllic place. And there`s a full-sized mountain, and the desert`s not much more than an hour away. The cost of living is pretty low, which ...
Courtney Taylor
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I`d never let that happen. If it does, I`ll go and live on a desert island for a year.
Anna Friel
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
Allison Elsby
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
Peter O`Toole
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
Robert Stack
There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass.
Mary Austin
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz
