Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Bill Maher

Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles.

Liam Gallagher

I will always be an Oasis.

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.

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.

Desmond Tutu

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

Tom Stoppard

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

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.

Pete Waterman

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Mose Allison

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

Neal A. Maxwell

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Natascha McElhone

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

Isla Fisher

I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene.

Julia Ward Howe

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

Michelle Moran

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...

Noel Gallagher

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

Noel Gallagher

You and I are gonna live forever

Noel Gallagher

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

Noel Gallagher

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

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.

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.

Liam Gallagher

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Lenny Kravitz

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Tod Machover

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

Tom Waits

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier

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.