Toms Quotes - Page 3

• I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

  Jodie Foster

  Girlfriend, Careers, Levels

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• My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

  Jane Fonda

  Father, Character, Wrath

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

  Jim Butcher

  Fighting, Winning, Eight

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.200, Penguin

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• They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

  Libba Bray

  Helping, Blushing, God Help Us

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Sitting Still, People

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• Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Hurt, Pain

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• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moon, Fire, Water

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just the same as they are these days? Did it still rain and get dark and all the stuff it does now? Did the sun go up and down in exactly the same way?" Yes," Tom said, and then he smiled at Rose and said, "No. Not really. Not exactly the same way.

  Hilary McKay

  Rain, Dark, Rose

  Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Men, Hands

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.247, Penguin

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• Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Blue, Yellow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

  Stephen King

  Mean, People, Mind

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1578, Anchor

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• My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

  John Grisham

  Book, Kids, Naughty

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• If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Uncles, Writing, Being Thankful

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• Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Numbers, Historic

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• [Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Function, Understood, Jokes

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• There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

  Bill Nighy

  Men, Three, World

  "Bill Nighy: five things I know about style". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Player, Events, Wells

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• The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

  Moby

  Crazy, Wings, Needs

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• I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

  George McGovern

  Tickets, Intention, Dropping

  "Former Senator, Vice Presidential Nominee Thomas Eagleton Dead at 77", www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2007.

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• There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

  Nicole Kidman

  Drug, Dresses, Psychiatrist

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• I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

  Nicole Kidman

  Tiny, Want, Littles

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• I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

  Mindy Kaling

  Hurt, Character, Work Out

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• I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Thinking, Fans, Cruise

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• I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!

  Katherine Jenkins

  People, Would Be, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Baby, Assistants, Supposed To Be

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