Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Gallagher

I will always be an Oasis.

Charles Baudelaire

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Bill Maher

Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles.

Tom Stoppard

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

Aleister Crowley

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

Desmond Tutu

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

Boris Trajkovski

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

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.

Chris Cornell

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Dean Ornish

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

Christopher Cagan

I feel Texas is going to come out of this pretty well.

David Dewhurst

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

Catherine Crier

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

Calamity Jane

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Charley Pride

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

Charles Kuralt

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

Calvin Jillson

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

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.

Bible Bible

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

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.

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.

Karl Pilkington

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

Saadi

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

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.