Tom Craddick Quotes

Her vulnerability to Wiggs was opening her up (as voluntary vulnerability often can ) in unexpected ways. ~ Tom Robbins

Accepting the fact that she did indeed have Alzheimer's, that she could only bank on two unacceptably effective drugs available to treat it, and that she couldn't trade any of this in for some other, curable disease, what did she want? Assuming the in vitro procedure worked, she wanted to live to hold Anna's baby and know it was her grandchild. She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see Tom fall in love. She wanted one more sabbatical year with John. She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.
She laughed a little, surprised at what she'd just revealed about herself. Nowhere in that list was anything about linguistics, teaching, or Harvard. She ate her last bite of cone. She wanted more sunny, seventy-degree days and ice-cream cones. ~ Lisa Genova

The purpose of clothing, as best he could tell, was to keep one unembarrassed and at the right temperature. If an outfit served that purpose for a respectable period - twenty years, say - and at the lowest price available, then it was successful. ~ Tom Rachman

Can't you function unless you're losing? ~ Tom Stoppard

On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is. ~ Tom Cruise

An infamous political prison required a revolution as much as a revolution required an infamous political prison. ~ Tom Rob Smith

Present and future, Harry Potter ... ' He pulled Harry's wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves: I AM LORD VOLDEMORT ~ J.K. Rowling

There ain't no devil there's just god when he's drunk ~ Tom Waits

'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C. ~ Tom Vanderbilt

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were. ~ Tom Waits

I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified. ~ Tom Robbins

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. ~ Tom Waits

I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest. ~ Tom Hopper

I like the laid-back ladies. Looks are stressed so much these days, and a lot of girls feel they need to do all of these weird and wonderful things to look good, and they really don't. The best-looking girls don't do anything; they just sort of know they're beautiful, especially in jeans and a hoodie. ~ Tom Felton

Those of you that think filming is all glamour, you're so wrong! Really, only the premieres are the glitzy bits. ~ Tom Felton

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so" Mark Twain ~ Tom Kelley

We may be rats in a maze as far as the Obama administration is concerned, but in Texas, we are rats with a firm knowledge of just where the button is and how to push it. It helps us put up with all the nonsense and it would do the folks in Washington well to remember that. - Tom King ("Why the Secession Talk in Texas") ~ Tom King

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you. ~ Tom Sizemore

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. ~ Barry Pepper

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. ~ Tom Hopkins

[ ... ]to be real
to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate. ~ Tom McCarthy

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen. ~ Tom Cullen

You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated. ~ Tom Preston-Werner

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ~ Tom Wolfe

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99) ~ Tom Robbins

You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers. ~ Tom Clancy

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different. ~ Tom Hiddleston

The best thing you can do is get very good at being you. ~ Tom Wilson

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said
no. But somehow we missed it. ~ Tom Stoppard

Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good. I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided. ~ Tom Lehrer

It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go. ~ Tom Wolfe

"Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup. ~ Tom Cole

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane. ~ Tom Waits