61 Movie Quotes about Desert (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

Memorable quotes about desert, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

51 Why? There's nothing there but sand and cactus. -Maybe more than you thought. Like about 2000 acres.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

52 You have come far. -From Egypt. -Across the desert? On foot? He who has no name surely guided your steps.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

53 What's up? -Norther, looks like. -A norther? What's a norther? -Big winds from the north this time of year. When they blow hard, this desert country stands right up on its hind legs.

Walter Huston as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

54 My point is that in the desert we have a saying: 'A lion can be killed by the jackal, if the jackal knows where to bite.' Where does a jackal bite a wolf?

Jan-Michael Vincent as Stringfellow Hawke in Airwolf (1984)

55 Where are they landing? - Pahrump. It's in the Nevada desert.

Jack Nicholson as The President in Mars Attacks! (1996)

56 This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family.

Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

57 I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight with a billion stars all around.

Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in The Big Lebowski

58 The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.

Claude Rains in Casablanca (1942)

59 Ah, monsieur, let us toast our success in the desert.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

60 They just landed in the desert.

Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element