Gobi Quotes

#1. I was hanging out in gers [yurts] with these Kazakh sort of Bedouins. Drank nasty-ass camel milk. The drive [from the Souther Gobi to Ulan Bator] is insane. It's like The Road.

Michelle Rodriguez

#2. A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

Dai Sijie

#3. Gene Simmons after three months in the Gobi Desert? The Hunchback of Notre Dame following corrective surgery? An escaped Muppet? The drummer from Ratt?

Greg Sestero

#4. The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren't the kind that Anna wanted to admire too closely.

A. Ashley Straker

#5. The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

Barbara Demick

#6. 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

#7. Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like 'E.R.' or 'The West Wing,' or a movie like 'Jurassic Park.'

Morgan Fairchild

#8. I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it's really quite tight.

Eddie Izzard

#9. You should not be afraid of a little blood," Gobi said. "Life is full of it.

Joe Schreiber

#10. Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Bennett Cerf

#11. It's natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here's me asking you to please not make that mistake.

Ann Brashares

#12. On the nuclear issue, the first point is that the entire world must recognize that Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon, nor shall it seek a nuclear weapon.

Hassan Rouhani

#13. If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right? His father laughed but didn't answer.

Robert Liparulo

#14. The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Thomas Harris

#15. Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it
excessively.

Deanna Raybourn

#16. I just play blues for fun.

Howlin' Wolf

#17. What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

Jackie Kay

#18. Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, cut-glass cheekbones and glazed blue eyes, he's right on the border between dreamboat and spooky freak.

David Edelstein