Tom Hanks Quotes

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• My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Obvious

• Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Thoughts
  • Habit
  • Circumstances

• I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Food

• We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Style

• There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Power
  • Silly
  • Caring

• This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

  

  Rachel

• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Sleep

• Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Done
  • Science
  • Engineering

• We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Focus

• I thought we were despondent when we came out of that regular time, going into overtime and played like it the first three minutes, but we found some energy at the end.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Minutes

• People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • People
  • Animals
  • Gods

• The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Beauty
  • Memory

• They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Killing
  • Holocaust
  • Cartoons

• As the government is, such will be the man.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Government

• Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sleep

• We are all God's animated cartoons.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Gods
  • Cartoons