Tom Hanks Quotes

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

Tom Hanks

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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • You
  • Audience
  • Crying

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Christian

• When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Look
  • Changes
  • Survive

• It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • True
  • Me

• In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Different
  • See

• That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Feeling
  • Cold
  • Warm

• Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • May

• The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.

  

  Irene Dunne

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Bold

• The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Music
  • Words

• Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Looks
  • Matter
  • Trouble

• To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Soul
  • Reality
  • Sunset

• When I'm on the pitch, I enjoy myself, and I try to give my all.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Opportunity

• I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Reflection