Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

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• When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Loved

• I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Kind

• I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Feeling
  • Ideas
  • Walking

• I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • New York
  • Looking Back

• Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Powerful
  • Color
  • Red

• A pleasant natural environment is a good- a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Environment

• Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Why
  • Career
  • Political

• My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Friends

• The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

  

  Franz von Papen

• A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.

  

  John Heywood
  • Cat

• Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Real
  • Violence

• I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Want
  • Information
  • Autobiography

• You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

  

  Bette Midler
  • She
  • Daughter
  • Littles

• She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • She
  • Black
  • Dark

• It deals only with international calls. It is generally for far shorter periods of time. And it is not designed to collect reams of intelligence, but to detect and warn and prevent about attacks.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Intelligence
  • Deals

• You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Want
  • Always
  • Something

• Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Heaven
  • Looks
  • Jersey

• My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Dad
  • Golf Club

• I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Dad

• Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Politics
  • Easy
  • Ends

• What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Today
  • Black
  • Philosophy

• I like to imagine, if I was in the 1930s and was rich and a psychopathic killer, I probably would be moving about very freely and having a lot of fun.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Fun
  • Moving
  • Imagine

• I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

  

  Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves
  • Grew Up
  • Skateboarding