Tom Hanks Quotes

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

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• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Hope

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • You
  • Place
  • Layers

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Program
  • Imitate

• This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• We didn't know we'd end up here when we left.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Know
  • End
  • Left

• Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Done
  • Car

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Power
  • Interpretation

• The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

  

  Epictetus
  • Desires
  • Achieved
  • Fleeting

• The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Trouble
  • Decide
  • Reverses

• Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Pleasure

• The heaviest burden of all is the presence of the war and the increasing superficiality. It gives me incessantly the impression of a bloody carnival.. .I am now like the whores, I once painted in his Berlin-time: the merest brushstroke now, gone tomorrow. Nonetheless I am still trying to put my thoughts in order and, from all the confusion, create an image of time, which is my task, after all.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Image
  • Impression
  • Confusion

• We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Song
  • Vision

• The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Challenges

• I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Confusion
  • Cause
  • Riots