Quotes About Oasis

When I trained with the Japanese team, there we'd be singing Oasis songs at the top of our voices at the top of the jumps. People thought we were daft.

But "To Be Near Unto God" in the midst of busy avocations yields its sweetest blessedness when it is cultivated in the face of sin and the world, as an oasis in the desert of life.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

'Ready Player One' has it all - nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart, and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary. The novel follows Wade Watts through the virtual reality world, the OASIS, and on a quest to uncover and unlock the secrets buried deep inside.

A vision is like an oasis in a desert. You can't have it all the time, as you need to keep on continuing your journey through the desert of life experiences, full of faith trials... I am not so concerned about waiting for a vision to appear because I know it will come to me when I least expect it... I still do have visions that inspire my work.

Dreams are turning the desert into paradise.

You will have power and wealth, but what are these to a scholar? You will end your life an oasis in a desert of ignorance.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

the apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.

...one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.

The only place where you can regain lost paradises

It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out our thoughts and not have them denigrated, laughed at, or trampled upon, even when they deserved it. A place like that is precious.

I have a lot of plants - my living room is like a jungle. I like the idea of bringing the outside in.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

the ragged western fringe of Los Angeles called Venice. . . . Here the city stops its white cement sprawl, its hunger to engulf the whole earth under tons of trucked-in concrete. Here in the lap of the blind blue-eyed Pacific, Los Angeles is stopped dead by the sheer liquid cliffs of the sea. Here the trail ends. After Death Valley and Donner Pass, there is only this precarious oasis.

The book is water in the desert.

We go into the library, that layman's priory, that paper-scented oasis of quiet industry and calm.

gape at the blank space where 0001's words were, and a chill runs up my back as it dawns on me—what this oasis on the dark web, this place to vent our most destructive thoughts, could potentially be. I remember my last conversation with Matt—how he had said, You doing websites for hit men, now? Matt, always smarter than he sounds.

programas tan estrictos, ocio incluido, y su vida laboral se verá sometida a tales obligaciones horarias, que el oasis de los estudios se dedica cuidadosamente a la vaguedad, a lo incierto, incluso a una suntuosa nada.

I'm really into Noel Gallagher's lad culture vibe. I used to wear Fred Perry polo shirts a lot. In fact, I went to an Oasis concert, which I believe was the band's penultimate gig before they disbanded, and I would say about 80 per cent of the audience were wearing the same polo.

I've always liked the drive from L.A. to Vegas. Through only a few towns after San Bernardino but a lot of flat, dry desert, much of it on four-lane freeways, then, like a concrete and neon oasis: Fabulous Las Vegas.