Home / Topics / Lawrence Of Arabia Quotes

Lawrence Of Arabia Quotes

Browse 17 quotes about Lawrence Of Arabia.

Lawrence Of Arabia Quotes

“The deluded vision of personality that our Western civilization fosters and glorifies, increases the inward division; Lawrence recognized it as the enemy. The war against it is therefore inevitably a revolt against Western civilization.”

Individuality Western Civilization Lawrence Of Arabia

Book:The Outsider

Source: The Outsider

“We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend themselves with paper tools. Meanwhile we glozed our fraud by conducting their necessary war purely and cheaply. But now this gloss had gone from me. Chargeable against my conceit were the causeless, ineffectual deaths of Hesa. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.”

War Politics Regret Guilt Memoir Britain Statecraft Lawrence Of Arabia Arab Revolt Guerilla Tactics

Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“There's a line in David Lean's punishingly long 1962 desert flick, Lawrence of Arabia: 'Truly for some men nothing is written unless they write it.' Duh.”

Film Cinema Movies Duh Lawrence Of Arabia Gordy Lasure David Lean Biopic Desert Flick

Book:The Grip of Film

Source: The Grip of Film

“Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.”

Firsts Wells Wanted Actors Saws Singers Painter Arabia Carpenter Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Michael Pitt

“I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.”

Way Looks Mean Film Source Independent Arabia Good Films Steroid Mummy Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Brendan Fraser

“I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.”

Stories Passion Lost Simple Emotional Epic Arabia Faraway Places Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.”

Way Looks Form Shapes Enormous Arabia Movie Making Watersheds Good As It Gets Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:William Shatner

“I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.”

People Ifs Knows Way Mean Shots Green Screens Things To Do Telephones Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.”

Firsts Young Wish Saws Effects Teenager Psychologist Arabia Boomers Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Mary Doria Russell

“I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.”

Ifs Knows Children Has Beens Made Would Be Wife Fats Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Omar Sharif

“They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.”

Eye Black Hair Luck Spokes Arabia Moustache Black Eyes Black Hair Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Omar Sharif

“My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.”

Long Fun My Favorite Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!”

Looks Funny Girl Asks Beach Layers Traveled Funny Things Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Vera Wang

“I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.”

Looks Made Watches Privilege Graduates Arabia Watch Movie Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Jeffrey Katzenberg

“Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.”

Ultimate Arabia Cinematic Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Christine Baranski

“Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.”

British Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Billy Joel

“Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.”

Looks Film Four Wonderful Directors Direct Seven Filmmaking Arabia Samurai Wonderful Life Searchers It's A Wonderful Life Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Steven Spielberg