Quotes About Dune

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

island's handful of cops can't enforce it when people ignore the signs and stroll the three miles up from the public beach. Connor is rumored to have set his dogs on such trespassers, even to have chased them off in his dune buggy. When we climb the last dune, I'm pleasantly distracted by the scene before us—the sun a few degrees above the water, miles of deserted sand in either direction, the crashing of the waves. Indeed, it has

Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

God created Arrakis to train the faithful.

Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron? -Piter De Vries

The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn't they?

Arrakis is a one-crop planet [...] One crop. It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings.

Arrakis - Dune - Desert Planet

Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.

Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft. Brian Herbert Seattle, Washington January 11, 2008

Holding pens. You sell sandtrout and worms off-planet." "It was Muad'Dib's suggestion!" "I know. But none of your worms or sandtrout survive for long away from Dune." "Not yet," Muriz said. "But someday . . ." "Not in ten thousand years," Leto said.

Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft.

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, " Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.

A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'

There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.

Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself.

Dune," the Fremen youth said. "Only the Imperials and the Harkonnens call this place Arrakis." "All right," Kynes said. "Dune, then.

Arrakis!" Kynes could not restrain his astonishment—and yes, pleasure—at the prospect. "I believe the nomadic Fremen inhabitants call it Dune.

Dune is like a great engine that we are oiling and repairing. One day this world will serve us in new and wondrous ways, just as we will continue to honor and serve it. My Fremen brothers, we are part of the ecosystem ourselves, an integral part. We occupy our own essential niche.

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.