Tom Hanks Quotes

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Tom Hanks

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Day
  • Start
  • Television

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Limits
  • Only
  • Exceeding

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Life
  • Romantic
  • Confident

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble

• As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • High
  • Think

• I am always relaxed.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Relaxed

• I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Would
  • Sure
  • Babysitting

• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Mountain

• I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

  

  Afia Nathaniel
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hopes

• The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.

  

  Peter Higgs
  • Beginning
  • October

• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Power
  • Devil
  • Empathy

• 'The biggest problem is that Java is really slow. On a pure cpu / memory / display / communications level, most modern cell phones should be considerably better gaming platforms than a Game Boy Advanced. With Java, on most phones you are left with about the CPU power of an original 4.77 mhz IBM PC, and lousy control over everything.'

  

  John Carmack
  • Power
  • Game
  • Control

• The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Infinite