“A desert is a place without expectation.”
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
“A desert's a stupid place to put a river.”
"The Tamarisk Hunter", High Country, 26 June 2006
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Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
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“Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Suzanne" - Isle of Wight performance (1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_56ep729TE - Live in London (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snMOmHzgssk <br class="br">Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) <br class="br">Context: Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.<br>You can hear the boats go by,<br>You can spend the night beside her,<br>And you know that she's half crazy<br>But that's why you want to be there,<br>And she feeds you tea and oranges<br>That come all the way from China.<br>And just when you mean to tell her<br>That you have no love to give her<br>Then she gets you on her wavelength<br>And she lets the river answer<br>That you've always been her lover.<br>And you want to travel with her,<br>And you want to travel blind,<br>And you know that she will trust you,<br>For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
“I'll show you a place, high on the desert plain. Where the streets have no name”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Where the streets have no name"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
James Burke (science historian) (1936) British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer
What's happened in Kuwait, the change from a nomadic existence to being able to buy and use everything modern technology has to offer has come in much less than one generation. Kuwait represents the immense power of technology used in a way most of us have never experienced, because we've lived with the kind of change it can bring for more than a hundred years. Here it's been focused. Change has been instant and total. Kuwait has suddenly become like New York, or any other of the great urban islands on technology, totally dependent on that technology. Like them, without it, Kuwait would return to the desert.
Connections (1979), 1 - The Trigger Effect
Mati Diop (1982) French actress and film director
Source: On her mixed race ancestry in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/09/atlantics-director-mati-diop-as-a-mixed-race-girl-theres-always-a-visible-and-invisible-side-of-you in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)
