I’m most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page… sunrise over the desert and masses of… a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. – Anthony Hopkins
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it. – Alia Shawkat
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn’t take Freud’s books with me, because I’ve already read them all. – Anne Roiphe
I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892. – Barry Marshall
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War. – Benedict Cumberbatch
I can’t imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun. – Adam Ferrara
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. – Arthur Erickson
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus
Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love. – Andy Gibb
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there. – Billy Connolly
I’m surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn’t think it got, like, Mercury-hot. – Adam Ferrara
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince, Chapter XXV.
Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It’s set inside a greater land parcel that’s about the size of the state of Connecticut that’s called the ‘Nevada Test and Training Range.’ – Annie Jacobsen
There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California. – Alex Pettyfer
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or ‘the people,’ constitute the great majority of those affected. – Martin Van Creveld
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. – Edward T. Hall
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us. – Michelle Yeoh
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. – Denis Kearney
I think carpet bombing is an absolutely tremendous idea if the enemy accommodates you by laying himself out like a carpet in the middle of the desert without any civilians or infrastructure around him. Sadly, the Islamic State has learned that that is a losing proposition and does not accommodate us in that way. – David Petraeus
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it’s 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin. – Mark McKinnon
I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it. – Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert – and then make it brief. – Gene Fowler
I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn’t have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren’t around. I was lucky to have mine around. – Dwight Howard
Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911. – Fidel Castro