English Patient Quotes

#1. And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would.
Katherine cliffton
The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

#2. No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Anthony Minghella

#3. I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

Ayelet Waldman

#4. The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

Joe Queenan

#5. No one sleeps in Hell except as a possible defensive posture in retaliation during yet another punitive presentation of The English Patient.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. When I hear the word 'independent' I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film. Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore.

Jim Jarmusch

#7. The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

Willem Dafoe

#8. Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#9. When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about ... A little tea or coffee restores them ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

Florence Nightingale

#10. 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

Kristin Scott Thomas

#11. You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

James D. Watson

#12. Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. You saved Hal's wife, why not my wife? Why not Janice? WHY NOT MY JANICE?

Stephen King

#14. How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

Michael Ondaatje

#15. If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

Michael Ondaatje

#16. The fewer plants and animals we are able to recognize as individuals - recognize well enough to name - the more alienated we have come to feel from ourselves, the Earth and God, the Source.

Linda Bender

#17. (I never crush a relationship dead, I once boasted. Meaning: I always leave something in case I want to pick it up later.)

Jill Dawson

#18. He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.

Comte De Lautreamont

#19. -I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you!

Michael Ondaatje

#20. So is there any part of you that's not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Cyril Connolly

#22. It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

Dale Evans

#23. So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had
gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missing
incidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as if
plaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night.

Michael Ondaatje

#24. Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

Julie Bowen

#25. I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Francis Ford Coppola

#26. It was a place for people with mental health problems and not alcoholics; as though the two could be neatly divided like that; as though the world was black and white and not a murky grey.

Victoria Spry

#27. Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Hector Berlioz

#28. I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.

Michael Ondaatje