Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

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

Woody Allen

Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it [salvation] is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.

Will Rogers

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

Zig Ziglar

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

Norman Geisler

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.

Nuno Bettencourt

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Molly Ivins

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

Julia Ward Howe

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Bonnie Henrickson

Hopefully, we can get more out there for the Texas game.

Dante Hall

I am in and out of Texas all the time.

Robert Duvall

I love working in Texas anywhere.

Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Richard Roeper

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Sandy Duncan

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

Van Cliburn

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

Wil Wheaton

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

Richard Flanagan

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Robyn Davidson

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Laurence J. Peter

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

Bible Bible

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

Karl Pilkington

If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic

Bible Bible

They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

Bible Bible

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

Saadi

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.