Toms Quotes - Page 12

• Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Uncles, Writing, Achievement

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

  George Clooney

  Gossip, Busy, Cruise

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• Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Character, Self, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

  Michael Gartner

  Nbc

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• Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

  Tom Waits

  Play, Piano, Waiting

  "Boho Blues". Interview with Bart Bull in San Francisco for Spin Magazine (USA), Volume 3, No. 6, September 1987.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.

  James Dashner

  Maze Runner

  James Dashner (2016). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.176, Delacorte Press

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• Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Animal, Men, Skills

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin

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• There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Children, Imagination

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• What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

  Ken Follett

  Husband, Needs, Said

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.39, Penguin

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• "Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense." "Bobby Tom’ll tell you he’s not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in his opinion."

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  War, Defense, Nuclear

  "It Had To Be You". Book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, 1994.

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• It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly nine-year-old's don't fall in love," said forgetful Caddy. Caddy tried very hard to comfort Rose when Tom had left. It was not an easy job. It was like trying to comfort a small, unhappy tiger. "Who said anything about falling in love?" growled Rose crossly. "Falling! Falling is by accident! I didn't fall in anything!" "Oh. Right. Sorry, Posy Rose." "And I am definitely not in love!

  Hilary McKay

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Sorry

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• Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

  Growing Up, Aunt, President

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• Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Names, Sitting

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that. -Bobby Tom

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Boys, Men, Self

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• Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Couple, Real, Years

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• Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

  Helen Fielding

  Parent, Freak, Single Women

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drink, Foolish, Feels

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• Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Brother, Eye, Past

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