Top 32 The English Patient Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The English Patient

#1. And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would.
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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. In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down, he says.

Pierce Brown

#12. When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

Cavett Robert

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

Michael Ondaatje

#14. 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

#15. Stay in school and be a respectful and hardworking wallflower, and go to an accredited non-online university

Mindy Kaling

#16. Just as I am, without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#17. -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

#18. In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#19. Kneeling before him, Regin murmured, "Don't let that Fegley worm get to you." Still staring ahead, the kid slowed his banging. "There's a good ... male of indeterminate species.

Kresley Cole

#20. I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

Viola Davis

#21. The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

Daniel Quinn

#22. 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

#23. But we two have to live with our mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

#24. It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Peter Drucker

#25. When I encounter someone I haven't seen in a while, I have never once thought, I should jump at them and poke their face with my fingers and keep doing that until someone locks me in the bathroom. Because that's insane. What would you think if I did that to your dog friends?

Allie Brosh

#26. 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

#27. When leaders learn and live good values, they make themselves more valuable and lift the value of other people. That is the foundation of positive leadership.

John C. Maxwell