#sahara

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#haruki-murakami #may-kasahara #the-wind-up-bird-chronicle #birds

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#aids #die #died #expected #fact

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#charge #desert #federal #federal government #government

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#africa #arms #bird #cover #everybody

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. ↗

— Robert Stack

#book #california #comparable #desert #find

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#am #art #benevolent #cholera #emperor

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#committed #eye #fade #faint #followed

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. ↗

— Bono

#also #home #million #people #poorest

I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?  ↗

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#drink #food #funny #hospitality #humor

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. ↗