Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or volumes:
“That undefined and mingled hum,
Voice of the desert never dumb!”
—James Hogg (1770–1835)
“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)