Kwai Quotes & Sayings

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

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?
Benedict — Tricia Walker

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

My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."
Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire — Shirley Hazzard

I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible. — Sonny Sharrock

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments. — China Mieville

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

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. — George Bernard Shaw

He couldn't retort back, — Alan Ryker

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

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary. — William Kwai Sun Chow

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently. — Jean Craighead George

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. — Mel Brooks

Audacity is of all qualities the most youthful. — Ellen Glasgow

My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can't look at a jar without devouring it! — Monica DiNatale

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
— Ann Patchett

Let's fight against corruption for a better India — Rahul Gandhi