Tom Quotes

Tom Quote of the day

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Perception and reality are two different things.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

Do you want this to be a love story?

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

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.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah, " Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid

He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

I know what ails you.

The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

Branding is about everything.

Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.

Every villian is a hero in his own mind.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

I can't be yours forever, Mab, " I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. "I already belong to someone else. I belong to Alice!

Kevin had been born to make love to a man, the same way I had.

Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.

She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.

We don't experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds

If I could be anywhere, where would I be?

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

Excellence must be achieved through the eyes of those who judge us

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!""Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.""What?""I set fire to the boat.""But we're on the boat!""I know.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world