Toms Quotes - Page 18

• They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

  J. C. Watts

  Uncles, Thinking, Race

  4 Copy quote

• He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.

  Gary McCord

  Golf, Tree, Mold

  9 Copy quote

• Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Hero, Player

  25 Copy quote

• Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.

  Michael Swanwick

  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Fiction

  4 Copy quote

• Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

  Kent Haruf

  Men, House, Smoking

  FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Oct 29, 2011

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me.
  Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?'
  'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.

  Bill Shankly

  Country, Cities, One Day

  8 Copy quote

• I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

  Jalen Rose

  Uncles, Player, Black

  FaceBook post by Jalen Rose from Mar 09, 2011

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

  Jalen Rose

  Uncles, School, Player

  "Grant Hill’s Misfire" by Jonathan Weiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’s songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!

  Tom Paxton

  Song, School, Speak English

  10 Copy quote

• A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

  Edward Abbey

  Adults, Earth, Lasts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.

  Jack White

  Passion, Light, Numbers

  11 Copy quote

• I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

  Arabella Weir

  Book, Names, Voice

  4 Copy quote

• I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

  Randy Harrison

  Careers, Want, Kind

  88 Copy quote

• I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell.

  Kim Darby

  True Grit, Hell

  16 Copy quote

• I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Balls, Used

  18 Copy quote

• The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Song, Years

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.127, Hachette UK

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.

  Thom Yorke

  Names, People, Thumbs

  13 Copy quote

• Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

  Malcolm Cowley

  Kind, Sometimes, Kitten

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

  Melina Marchetta

  Character, Aunt, Thinking

  52 Copy quote

• If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and have fun, but at the end of the day, I'm not Tom Cruise. Girls are not falling all over me.

  Joshua Jackson

  Girl, Fun, Fall

  5 Copy quote

• I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom.

  Katie Holmes

  Love

  "INT: Holmes/Caine". JoBlo Interview, www.joblo.com. June 16, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

  Grace Metalious

  Girlfriend, Sex, Glasses

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Boys, Mind

  6 Copy quote

• The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

  Christian Carion

  Character, Cat, Army

  4 Copy quote