"[Having successfully lit a fire, putting more wood onto it] There we go! Light it up, cmon! [singing] "The time to hesitate is through!" [throws more wood in the fire and gets briefly burned] Ouch! Haha, ouch! "No time to wallow in the mire. Try now, we can only lose. Cause girl, we cant get much higher. Cmon, baby, light my firrrrre!" [takes a palm branch, lighting the end, then holding it up] There you go. There you go! Its a signal fire! And it spells out S.O.S! [embers start falling around him] Woah! Its a meteor shower! [drops the branch back into the fire] Fireflies, go! Run! Youre free, youre free! [the fire burns bigger] Yes! YES! Look what Ive created! I have made FIRE! I...have made fire!"
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, written by William Broyles Jr. and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Filming took place from Janua
"This is it. Thats all thats left. I checked over the whole island, and that is all thats left. So were gonna be short. Short. Well just have to make some more out of videotape. Yes. No, we have time. We do, we have time! Look, the winds still blowing in from the west. I know. Yeah, I know! I know where theres 30 feet of extra rope! But... but Im not going back up there."
"We both have done the math. Kelly added it all up and...knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had...lost her. Because I was never going to get off that island. I was going to die there, totally alone. I was going to get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how and where it was going to happen. So...I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course, you know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I-I couldnt even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing. And thats when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So thats what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day, the logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back in Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass...And Ive lost her all over again. Im so sad that I dont have Kelly. But Im so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I got to keep breathing. Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
"Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldnt take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. Thats something Gilligan never told us."
"Jerry Lovett: Im Kellys husband. Jerry Lovett. Kelly wanted... Kelly wanted to be here... Look, this is very hard for everyone. I cant even imagine how hard it is for you. Kelly, uh... shes had it rough. First when she thought she lost you, and now dealing with all of this, its confusing, its very emotional for her. Shes... shes... sort of lost. Maybe you could just give her a little more time. Anyway, uh... Im sorry that..."
"We were enroute from Memphis, for eleven and a half hours, for 475 miles an hour, so they think that were right here. But, we went out of radio contact, then flew around that storm for about an hour, so thats a distance of what, 400 miles? Four hundred miles squared, thats 160,000 times pi, 3.14... 502,400. Thats a search area of 500,000 square miles. Thats twice the size of Texas. They may never find us."
"[to Wilson] You wouldnt have a match by any chance, would you?"
"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."
"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."
"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"
"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"