Cast Quotes

1459 Cast quotes by 1178 unique authors

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi
I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't… — Lewis Thomas
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. — Gene Tierney
I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years. — Gabrielle Union
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. — Leonardo da Vinci
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. — Mia Wasikowska
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. — Oscar Wilde
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty… — John Woolman
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. — William Butler Yeats
Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. — William Butler Yeats
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. — Ursula K. Le Guin
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At… — Mervyn Peake
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from… — Radclyffe Hall
Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth. — Charles Wright
The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind… — Henry Van Dyke
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… — Rebecca Solnit
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and… — Kurt Vonnegut
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and… — Naomi Novik
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums… — Don Marquis
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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