Kwai Quotes

#1. You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.

Brian Helgeland

#2. Maybe he was what Lucian would have turned out to be if the old sheriff hadn't have lived in such interesting times. A couple of years in a Japanese prison camp might be just what Turk needed. But I didn't have a bridge over the river Kwai for him to build so we had to settle for Powder Junction.

Craig Johnson

#3. The best man day in the world would involve building a bridge and then blowing up that bridge. Which is why you can't make a better man movie than The Bridge on the River Kwai, unless you make Two Bridges on the River Kwai.

Joel Stein

#4. I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.

William Monahan

#5. The separation between the cyber and the physical worlds was disappearing. Cyberbullying was just bullying, and cyberwar was just war - the true age of cyber began when we started removing it as a descriptor.

Matthew Mather

#6. Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Pat Summitt

#7. The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

Mark Steyn

#8. Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#9. Walking into danger with your eyes open and your mind clear is a sign of bravery, not foolishness. Well, sometimes foolishness. But as long as you walk back out again, you can pretend that part doesn't matter.

Seanan McGuire

#10. The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

Christian Louboutin

#11. You only beat me if you get me to hate.

Billy Joel

#12. Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

Aeschylus

#13. My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.

Steve Olson

#14. In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins.

Rosamund Hodge

#15. Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?
Benedict

Tricia Walker

#16. According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.

David Letterman

#17. Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

William Kwai Sun Chow

#18. Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape?

D.B.C. Pierre

#19. Meaningful change is always painful. It's always resisted. And it's always awkward.

Amy Daws