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  • Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.

    Art   Islands   House  
  • The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

    Isaiah, XXXV. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 637-638), 1922.
  • When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

  • The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

    Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group
  • Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

    Stars   Animal   Cities  
  • I usually head up to the mountains or out into the desert. Somewhere nobody is. There I can dig deep and find the core that got me where I am today. It's sort of like my reset button.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

    Home   Cutting   Rocks  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

    Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers
  • The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

    Names   Kuwait   Storm  
  • Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

    Voice   Soul   Desert  
  • No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

    Mother   Light   Boston  
    W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing
  • The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

    Ocean   Desert   Sage  
    Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press
  • She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

    Teacher   Strong   Home  
    The Scarlet Letter ch. 18 (1850)
  • Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

    Flower   Men   Wind  
    Samuel Johnson (1912). “The works of Samuel Johnson”
  • We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

    Backyards   Desert   Kind  
    Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.24, Multnomah
  • Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands, when we were kids?” “I see it well.” “We spent all our days afraid it was too good to be true, Tatiana,” said Alexander. “We were always afraid all we had was a borrowed five minutes from now.” Her hands went on his face. “That’s all any of us ever has, my love,” she said. “And it all flies by.” “Yes,” he said, looking at her, at the desert, covered coral and yellow with golden eye and globe mallow. “But what a five minutes it’s been.

    Kids   Eye   Hands  
  • That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.135
  • Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.

    Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
  • Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

    Life   Stars   Novelists  
    Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK
  • A bird, music and food -desert island items

    Islands   Bird   Desert  
  • We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

    Years   Would Be   Desert  
  • There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

    Life   Sea   Silence  
    "Silence" l. 1 (1827)
  • As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.

  • A desert is a place without expectation.

    Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.313, A&C Black
  • The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

    Men   Sea   Desert  
    J.M.G Le Clézio (2010). “Desert”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

  • The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

  • The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

    Men   Black   Desert  
    Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth (2013). “Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man In Black”, p.137, Marvel Entertainment
  • somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

    Moving   Men   Bird  
    William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.192, Simon and Schuster
  • That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

    Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.63, Virginia Woolf
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