Deserted Quotations

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

News that the German government has deserted plans to invest proceeds from gold sales into a special fund assigned for research and education has given a boost to a weak gold market.

No doubt, the European traveler does not easily cross the vast extents of territory, deserted or supporting only ferocious peoples.

I don't feel embraced. I feel like a survivor. I was almost like we were on a deserted island. But we survived.

Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

My touch deserted me in that opening spell and Ewan didn't give me a look-in as his consistency just overwhelmed me but, hopefully, I will learn from the experience,

The presence of this profile suggested that Mamba had access to police files and information and may also explain why the farm was deserted when the police came to search it.

We had good looks from the field. Our shooting deserted us.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

A (Yugoslav army) prisoner had reported, for example, that seven people had deserted from his platoon,

A deserted homestead is always a sad sight, but here in the South we must look a little deeper than the surface, and then we see that every such overgrown plantation, and empty house, is a harbinger of freedom to the slaves, and every lover of his country, even if he have no feeling for the slaves themselves, should rejoice.

You may not be aware but in government departments, no one does any work on Friday and most offices are deserted by 2.30pm. Consequently, the OBO team can rest assured they are not throwing sand in the over-oiled mechanism of the civil service.

I've heard it's dead cool and that it's in the desert. I'm looking forward to it a lot and I know we'll have a good time. We're going to be all deserted up and smooth as the sand.

The new element of exiling players to a deserted island where they have an opportunity to work independently to win immunity may present many surprises about who can outlast the rest. We based our odds on the personalities of the past winners and our assessment of the new contestants - but with new game design, the profile of the winner could change significantly, making this anyone's game.

DO not lay the blame on Godhead, as you are prone to do. When everything goes right you say that God has come close to you; when something goes wrong you say that God has deserted you and gone far away! He does not move far or near.

And now I think it still bothers some people but I'm kind of glad the store is there as opposed to there being a deserted building.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

My sin and judgment are alike peculiar. I am a castaway, deserted and condemned.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.