The Bridge Over The River Kwai Book Quotes

#1. The thought was this: to write the Sibeliuses' story from start to finish. To cull their story from the thousands or millions of conversations I had with them over the century that I knew them. To turn it into a book." -Elixir

Liz Moore

#2. I think with boys ... it's all about shoes. I've seen so many little boys, and their outfits are so cute, and then their moms put kind of dorky shoes on them.

Kourtney Kardashian

#3. I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.

Rian Johnson

#4. If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Abigail Adams

#5. You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

Benicio Del Toro

#6. I said something I'd been thinking for a long while, "This guy came into work. I thought he was attractive. I check out guys sometimes." It came out fast because that was the first time I'd said it aloud. It felt like relief. And terror. Carter

T.J. Klune

#7. I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

Trent Reznor

#8. I'm a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He's an incredible basketball player.

Ashley Bell

#9. The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.

Larry Gagosian

#10. Hope of gain lessens pain.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born,

Elizabeth Warren

#12. No women does anything by accident. Brushing against you, trying to pass by you, bending over to pick something up...all traps man. All traps.

Van Krishna

#13. But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

Melody Carlson

#14. What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.
Its roots must hold the sky.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#15. I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

Katharine Graham