- Willard Holmes: You're wasting yourself here, Miss Worth--like an orchid in a bucket of sand.
- Barbara Worth: You don't know the desert as I do. It is beautiful.
- Willard Holmes: Beautiful perhaps--for one moonlit night--but if you could see the big cities--if they could see you!
- Barbara Worth: To redeem the desert--to make it all one garden--Isn't that a fine thing to do?
- Willard Holmes: But you don't belong here among these human cactus plants.
- Title card: [after a close-up of a dead horse lying in the sand] The withering kiss of the desert.
- Willard Holmes: This hell-hole will never be anything but a graveyard. You could see it if your brains weren't fried.
- Abe Lee: Maybe we ain't got the brains--maybe you ain't got the guts.
- Willard Holmes: I'll go as far as you or any other man will go.
- [first lines]
- Title card: Sunk into the Earth like a great molten bowl, lay the desert--unconquered Empress of the Wilderness--beautiful--mysterious-- merciless. A tawny siren, whispering promises of a Paradise beyond--crushing out the lives of men in its poisonous embrace.
- Tex: Pat Mooney, you loafer, I told you to fill the bar'l to the brim.
- Pat Mooney: What the divil's an inch of wather between friends?
- Tex: A drop of water will look like the Pacific Ocean to you before we get across this desert.
- Tex: Sandstorm's comin'! We gotta make cover quick!
- Jefferson Worth: How long do you think this will last, Tex?
- Tex: Mebbe three hours--mebbe three days.
- Barbara Worth: Mr. Holmes, do you realize that to all these people you are an angel from heaven?
- Willard Holmes: I'm really only the engineer for a soulless corporation bent on making big money quick.
- Willard Holmes: Why do you and Mr. Lee always speak Spanish?
- Barbara Worth: It's the language of our desert. You ought to learn it.
- Willard Holmes: What is the Spanish for 'I love you'?
- [Barbara starts to walk away]
- Willard Holmes: Please forgive me!
- Barbara Worth: Out here, Mr. Holmes, one doesn't learn how to say 'I love you' - one learns how to *prove* it. Buenos notes, señor.
- Old Man Newcomer: [car stalls in the desert] Wind 'er up again, Ma.
- Title card: The waters came laughing, leaping, carrying with them life, hope, wealth, to fill the emptiness with flowers, and fruits, and golden grain.
- Willard Holmes: I just came to say I can't come to dinner. I'm ordered to the river.
- Barbara Worth: I'm sorry. I was baking this pie especially for you.
- Willard Holmes: I'm going East soon and I don't want to go alone.
- Barbara Worth: I'll bake you a pie to take with you.
- Willard Holmes: I want to take *you* along!
- Pat Mooney: Seein' your smilin' faces reminds me of what Mrs. Murphy said to Mrs. Casey - - 'Are you ever troubled with cold feet?' says Mrs. Casey. 'I am,' says Mrs. Murphy, 'but they're not me own.'
- Barbara Worth: Am I killing you?
- Willard Holmes: I rather enjoy it. Do you know how wonderful you are?