Desert quotes

“Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin' at all for miles around. Nothin' but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight.”
Brian Cox - James Brogan

“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joe Pesci - Nicky Santoro

“And if eating cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”
Lauren Graham - Lorelai Gilmore

“- Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?
- T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.”
Arthur Kennedy - Jackson Bentley
Peter O'Toole - T.E. Lawrence

“No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.”
Alec Guinness - Prince Faisal

“Already I have dropped back into the desert as if it were my own place. Silence and solitude all around me like an impenetrable veil. Sleep more profound that civilization contrives. And then, the roadless desert, again.”

Nicole Kidman - Gertrude Bell

“- Ravel: No radio, no feed source.
- Millburn: Nobody’s home!
- David: There is nothing in the desert, and no man is nothing.
- Ford: What is that?
- David: Just something from a film I like.”

Benedict Wong - Ravel
Rafe Spall - Millburn
Michael Fassbender - David
Kate Dickie - Ford

“We pass a damn gas station every hundred yards for a thousand miles, but when you really need one, you end up walking your ass off. This is no way to run a desert!”
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Joan: You have no right to keep me here against my will!
- Omar: Then go. You're free to leave. Should you leave, I will not stop you... but I will not provide transportation to any airport, train station or port for you. Besides, only the worst kind of fool will attempt to cross our desert alone.”
Kathleen Turner - Joan
Spiros Focás - Omar

“I've seen lots of camel toes before, but never on a camel!”
Pauly Shore - Bones Conway

“- Oscar Madison: I think I figured out where we are.
- Felix Ungar: Where?
- Oscar Madison: In a Clint Eastwood movie.”

Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar

“The birds in the desert eat only flesh, and there is no wind.”
Isabelle Adjani - Shirra Assel

“How's your mama? We went out. You know, you'd make a nice 9-piece. You know we black people like chicken! You see any flies on me?”

Eddie Griffin - Freddy Tiffany

“- Paul Atreides: Is it true, that the sand can blow at seven hundred kilometers per hour?
- Dr. Wellington Yueh: It can render flesh to dust in minutes. And these dry winds can generate tremendous static electricity in the atmosphere.”
Kyle MacLachlan - Paul Atreides
Dean Stockwell - Doctor Wellington Yueh

“No one can ever know for sure what a deserted area looks like.”
George Carlin

“Don't you listen to the desert? Even when there's no wind the sand sings.”
David Carradine - Changsha

“Here is your king's scepter, and here is your kingdom, with the scorpion, the cobra, and the lizard for subjects. Free them, if you will. Leave the Hebrews to me.”

Yul Brynner - Rameses

“It looks like a paradise, but it is in fact the most treacherous desert in the world... the Kalahari. After the short rainy season, there are many waterholes, and even rivers. But after a few weeks, the water sinks away into the deep Kalahari sand, the waterholes dry up, and the rivers stop flowing.”
Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“- Chuck Clarke: Take one sip at a time. That water has to last you about another 48 minutes.
- Lyle Rogers: Why, what happens then?
- Chuck Clarke: We run out of water.”

Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers

“We're out in the desert, so bring some beer!”
Matthew Modine - Will Parker

“- Jim Parker: Isn't that - water up ahead?
- David Herdeg: No. This is a desert. And that's a mirage.
- Jim Parker: How much longer you think this mirage is gonna last?”

Bobby Di Cicco - Jim Parker
Michael Paré - David Herdeg

“- Pecos Bill: Not as hot as the summer of '88 when the chickens laid fried eggs and the babies cried sawdust.
- Paul Bunyan: Does this story have a point or does it go on and on and on like this stinkin' desert?”
Patrick Swayze - Pecos Bill
Oliver Platt - Paul Bunyan

“- Atticus Noyle: Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?
- Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.
- Atticus Noyle: Excellent. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Simon McBurney - Atticus Noyle
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco

“- Thomas Smithers: Chrome, shall we make the desert bloom?
- Meneer Chrome: First we must make the desert.”
Pete Postlethwaite - Thomas Smithers
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Meneer Chrome

“Where any other person would die of thirst in a few days, they live quite contentedly in this desert that doesn't look like a desert. They know where to dig for roots and bugs and tubers, and which berries and pods are good to eat. And of course they know what to do about water.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator