The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. – Vera Nazarian Category: Arizona
Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter — and hell spends the summer. – Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s Category: Arizona
You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley. – Author unknown Category: Arizona
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry Category: Arizona
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish Category: Wise Words
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. – Robert Byrne Category: Politics
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. – Godfrey Harold Hardy Category: Beauty
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. – Yann Martel Category: Religion
