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 skylines lit up at dead of night, the air- conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)