Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
After reading about the Al Ain Oasis by ECWC, I became curious about cultivating dates, and browsed about the web a bit, learning.
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.
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
I've always been fascinated by the desert.
Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.
The outside world thinks that this country consists of a man and a desert.
The country is Libya. The man is Muammar Qaddafi.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special.
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.
Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.
The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.
It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
Israel is an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.