quotes about Cast Away

“Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.140

“From so much of this seriously-intended ***** there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.”

“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.”

“Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.”

“I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.”

“I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'”

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins”

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.”

“I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.”