Desert Oasis Quotes

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

When most people think about Nevada, they often instantly associate us with the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas Strip.

I love all the Imperial Valley, man.

I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip.

I always wanted to at least visit Dubai - it was a city that I loved to watch on the Discovery Channel. It had the world's biggest everything and clearly had a vision to stand out.

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

The California tract houses are like the mundane meeting the mystical. Sometimes if you're driving at twilight, and you see those houses, and they're starting to light up, there's something so beautiful, so ethereal about the fact that they're all pretty similar, set against this desert landscape and the light just hitting them a certain way.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

I truly believe Abu Dhabi is one of the world's best film locations, and I can't wait to come back.

Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.

Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

We used to go to Palm Springs, ditch school when I was in eleventh grade, and go hang out poolside with our ghetto blaster and listen to Pat Metheny 'Offramp' and kind of trip out on a lot of his music.

I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.

Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress.

My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.