Top 29 Quotes About Castaway
#1. [T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites.
Yann Martel
#2. More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured.
William H Gass
#3. A castaway adrift on my own little island - rich and with my family along with thousands of beautiful, drunken tourists to keep me company." - excerpt from Confessions of an Internet Pornographer.
Luis Mario
#4. A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!
Daniel Quinn
#5. I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.
Audrey Niffenegger
#6. Speechless, castaway and wry
a spellbound oddity am I
my feet are locked upon the clay
my gaze is locked upon the sky
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#7. Even without much experience in friendships, the lonely girl and the castaway boy filled the time as two friends should.
M.P. Kozlowsky
#8. Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#9. When I'd woken the next morning, I'd done so in a dislocated world of dimmed daylight and diluted colors, a sodden world, feeling like I was a castaway on an alien planet.
Keith Houghton
#10. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.
Yann Martel
#11. The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.
Prince Augustus William Of Prussia
#12. Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.
Visar Zhiti
#13. Each of us exists as a castaway in his circumstances, and it is there, whether he wishes or not, that man must struggle to remain afloat.
Pedro Blas Gonzalez
#14. This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.
Joseph Conrad
#15. As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.
Octavia E. Butler
#16. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.
Sandra Oh
#17. I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
Rodney Carrington
#18. It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.
Katherine Anne Porter
#19. Peter's shadow is mocking me by lifting its shoulders, even though Peter himself just looks at me with his hands in his pockets.
Anna Katmore
#21. Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
Tom Hanks
#22. When I came to New York, it was cheap!
Carl Andre
#23. Each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, two million Americans acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Ninety thousand die of that infection. The
Atul Gawande
#24. 41Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Anonymous
#25. The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.
David Williamson Shaffer
#26. England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country
Fred Trueman
#27. I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let's get out of here. I'm ready, I'm finished, let's not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.
Daniel Handler
#28. Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
William McKinley
#29. Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
David Chipperfield
