Phoenix Desert Dogs

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix, desert and/or dogs:

    “A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “In Bengal to move at all
    Is seldom, if ever, done,
    But mad dogs and Englishmen
    Go out in the midday sun.”
    —Noël Coward (1899–1973)