Tom Hanks Quotes

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

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• Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • High
  • Think

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • Being
  • Admit

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Greatest

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Dreams

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Running
  • Run

• I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Born
  • Appearance

• Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

  

  George Best
  • Business
  • Football

• I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • Dad
  • Years
  • Childhood

• I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Home
  • Growing
  • Food

• People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Great
  • Hard