Egyptian Quotes

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don`t need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

(The Pillow Book) The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker`s check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music ... a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.

Here the transcripts are saying, `Well, you know, there may be people speaking English on this ship,` ... Why would you say that if it`s an Egyptian ship, carrying horses?

I`m proudly British and proudly a Londoner - but I`m also proudly Egyptian and proudly from Cairo.

Most of the real estate prices are so expensive and they do not match their real value. The owners of these companies misunderstand that Egyptian expatriates, who work in UAE, have a lot of money to buy these properties.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."