Quotes About Kip English Patient

#1. 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

#2. Whenever more than one thread accesses a given state variable, and one of them might write to it, they all must coordinate their access to it using synchronization.

Brian Goetz

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

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.

John Gray

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

Michael Ondaatje

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

James D. Watson

#7. '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

#8. Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

Kirk Douglas

#9. 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

#10. Social media is not an end in itself. It's just another tool to reach people.

Simon Mainwaring

#11. Stop shrugging, shrugger.

Isaac Marion

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Noam Chomsky

#15. When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Frederic Bastiat

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

#17. 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

#18. -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

#19. Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies; and that there is a resonance between the way we think and the way the world works.

Carl Sagan

#20. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

Amy Tan

#21. 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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Joe Queenan

#24. Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Zhuangzi

#25. So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets - and even the gospel itself - as without value.

John Calvin

#26. 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

#27. It will pass, whatever it is.

Idries Shah

#28. 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

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

Michael Ondaatje

#30. You can't hear me? Read my lips!

Stevie Wonder

#31. For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

Greg Berlanti

#32. When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh

Tarrin P. Lupo