quotes about Oasis
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Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
-- Allen West -
Running is ultimately a personal experience. It is a revival of the spirit, a private oasis for the thirsty mind. Yet, its healing power only increases in the presence of others. Run together and the oasis grows cooler and more satisfying.
-- Amby Burfoot -
I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
-- Ben EltonSource : 1998 In The Radio Times, 18 Apr.
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I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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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.
-- Brandi Carlile -
I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis
-- Brian May -
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
-- Damon Albarn -
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And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is really very small - a tiny blue and green oasis of life in a cold universe.
-- David Suzuki -
There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.
-- Dominique Pire -
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.
-- Ernest Cline -
The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.
-- Eugene Odum -
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Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
-- Faith Baldwin -
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
-- Fernando Botero -
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.
-- Israel ShenkerSource : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
-- J. A. Spender -
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Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it’s like you’ve entered an oasis.
-- Jemma Kidd -
Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
-- Jim LovellSource : "Moon talkers: What astronauts talked about in space" by Jackie Hicken, www.deseretnews.com. July 20, 2016.
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The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
-- Jim Lovell -
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.
-- Joseph Fort Newton -
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Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.
-- Ken DohertySource : Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
-- Khalil Gibran -
I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.
-- Laura WhitcombSource : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
-- Lenny Kravitz -
I'm Liam Gallagher and I'm in Oasis. The whole world is jealous of me. It should be.
-- Liam Gallagher -
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.
-- Marcel Duchamp -
You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...
-- Michelle MoranSource : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.151, Broadway Books
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My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
-- Natascha McElhone -
Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.
-- Nellie McKaySource : "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.
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Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.
-- Noel Gallagher -
Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
-- Nuno Bettencourt -
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Do not pass by the oasis without stopping to drink.
-- Otto Gross -
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop
-- Paulo Coelho -
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
-- Pete Rozelle -
I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.
-- Pete WatermanSource : "... Pete Waterman" by Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.
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Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.
-- Peter Julian Eymard -
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
-- Rachel FieldSource : Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”
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Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
-- River PhoenixSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.
-- Rob Thurman -
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What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.
-- Sonny Rollins -
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it [salvation] is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.
-- Woody Allen -
One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.
-- Dave Chambers -
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The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.
-- Tod Machover -
I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.
-- Trace Adkins -
When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.
-- William WestneySource : William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.135, Amadeus Press
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In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing
-- Justine FrischmannSource : "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.
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