Shirra Assel Quotes in Ishtar (1987)

Shirra Assel: This is an ancient devious world, and you come from a young country. Promise me you will keep my secret without trying to understand it.

Shirra Assel: The birds in the desert eat only flesh, and there is no wind.

Marty Freed: [Shirra is crying at the concert] What's wrong?

Shirra Assel: I think they're wonderful.

Shirra Assel: The Dome of the Emir's Palace is made of gold. The people have never seen a refridgerator.

Shirra Assel: Does the hawk fly?

Shirra Assel: [they've put a bounty on the singers] You are a murderer!

Resistence Fighter: So are you. Or do you think a bullet is crueler than what they face now?

Shirra Assel: I have written about our deaths, we will be remembered.

Shirra Assel: I knew he had hidden it where they would never find it. He was smiling at me!

[Cries]

Shirra Assel: It was our last secret.