Toms Quotes - Page 27

• A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Cat, Humor

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• 'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Lovers

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• I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.

  Kristen Stewart

  Cutting, Done, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

  Ansel Elgort

  Crazy, Thinking, Would Be

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• People are like, "Why are you all dressed up? Did you dress up just for me?" I'm like "No, I dressed up because I'm an adult and I felt like putting on my suit." But I love it. Tom Ford and Ralph Lauren are my two heroes of clothing designers.

  Paul Feig

  Hero, Two, People

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"

  Patrick Fabian

  Stars, Thinking, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone.

  Peter Farrelly

  Guy, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.

  Rick McCallum

  Character, People, Movie Love

  Source: collider.com

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• If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.

  N. T. Wright

  People, England, Doe

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.

  Harold Evans

  Jobs, Thinking, Editors

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Adventure, Names

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 1 (1884)

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• If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.

  Tim Leffel

  Character, Thinking, Impact

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

  Sophy Burnham

  Uncles, Children, Book

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• I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with dogs. I discussed some of the reasons that a person might want to live out of the control of our federal, state, local, and every other form of government. Actually, I don't think I even called myself a libertarian. I think Tom Shroder identified me as one.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Sex, Thinking

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.

  Tomm Moore

  Character, Special, Cartoon

  "Handcrafting Magic: Dir. Tomm Moore on His Blissfully Beautiful Film ‘Song of the Sea’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2014.

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• Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Doe

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• I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Book, Past

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.

  Jason Lee

  Morning, Clever, Smart

  "Jason Lee ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• You get to shoot things, and things blow up, and you're jumping off of buildings. It's insane! And hot girls. And you get to dress cool. And you're in a movie with Tom Cruise, come on! So it's a dream come true. Truly.

  Josh Holloway

  Girl, Dream, Blow

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• Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge raised security alert to a code red. Apparently Howard Dean has escaped. Did you see Dean's crazed speech the other night, yelling? I see why his wife won't campaign with him. In fact, Dean has a new slogan: 'Aaghhhh.'

  Jay Leno

  Night, Yelling, Wife

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• I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.

  Jake Epstein

  Love You, Men, People

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• Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Twists, Medical

  "Fictional character: Cathy". "Shock Corridor", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tyrants, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.542, Рипол Классик

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• Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

  Craig Kilborn

  Yellow, Orange, Tape

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