Quiet American Quotes

#1. I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Michael Caine

#2. Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

Neel Mukherjee

#3. The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

Michael Caine

#4. I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

Michael Caine

#5. They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet.

Rick Remender

#7. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

Graham Greene

#8. There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

Jess Row

#9. There is nothing louder than an American hotel; and, mind you, this was supposed to be a quiet, cozy, old-fashioned, homey place - 'gracious living' and all that stuff.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

Sarah Zettel

#11. Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.

Graham Greene

#12. It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.

Candice Glover

#13. It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations

Graham Greene

#14. The squashy earth-colored sofas, the tall cups of American froth, the wholesome young people working with quiet efficiency

Robert Galbraith

#15. Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

Luther Standing Bear

#16. I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.

Leila Aboulela