Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or volumes:
“This ripe rebuke, this burgeoning affluence
Mocks me and mocks the desert of my bed.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,—a certain robust and radiant physical health; or—shall I say?—great volumes of animal heat.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)