Tom Hanks Quotes

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

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• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Person

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Spiritual
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Means
  • Normal

• Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Great
  • Children
  • City

• I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Family
  • Father
  • Football

• The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Leader
  • Just
  • Dalai Lama

• From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Man

• It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Life
  • Book
  • Story

• I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Party
  • Win
  • Election

• I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Friendships

• Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped and chawed the buttered toast They gave us for our tea.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Time
  • Tea

• Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

  

  Aberjhani
  • True
  • Nature
  • Lost

• If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Good
  • Music
  • Bad

• I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Energy

• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Stars
  • Tough

• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • American
  • Think
  • Chicago

• Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Powerful
  • Yes
  • No