Tom Stanley Quotes

Tom gave him a suspicious look. "Stanley, you've never actually worked a homicide investigation, right?"
"No, but how hard can it be? You collect all the clues and you put them together, and voila. I have read a lot of mystery novels. ~ Victor J. Banis

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. ~ Stanley Kunitz

With Ray? Only Prophet could manage to get pissed the way Tom wanted him to be and then quickly turn it around, accept the situation, and make it his. Which pissed Tom off. Again. Classic Prophet move. Tom tried to shake the pissed off-edness and went with command instead. "Come with me." Prophet gave him the side-eye. His gaze held a little drunken amusement - and something else Tom had yet to place. But he would. "He's yours?" Ray, the big man in leather who was sitting way too close to Prophet for Tom's comfort looked between them. There were so many ways Tom could answer that, several of them that could spike Prophet right through the heart. But the one that came out without hesitation was, "Better believe he's mine." Ray stood. "Don't get fucking mouthy. He sat with me." "I'll deal with him," Tom promised. ~ S.E. Jakes

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.' ~ Tom Colicchio

It was a chorus! A rain of garbage! A Rigoletto from the sewer, from the rancid gullet of the Bronx! ~ Tom Wolfe

Tom reached out and let his knuckles graze Jon's arm, a hidden touch just to ground him for the span of a heartbeat. Maybe Jon would turn a blind eye. Maybe they'd continue to live in denial that they both loved a fucking monster.

Jon smiled at the brief caress, and Tom felt his chest get tight. ~ Bey Deckard

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

Enough Truthseeker! Do not utter another word about religion! We have debated it to death! If you so much as mention it again while I am present, I will resume my heart-carving. Not for the honour of Avanti, but to shut you up!"

~ Vexis Zaelwarsh to Brael Truthseeker
Deathsworn Arc 5: The Temple of the Mad God
Martyn Stanley ~ Martyn Stanley

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

The vision always precedes reality. ~ Leon Tom

Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality. ~ Tom Kimmel

I'm going to kill them all - Stanley aka Nine ~ Pittacus Lore

Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told the distinction, and his perceptive powers were not at all deficient. I fancy they were quite as strong as those of the Rev. Mr Stelling; for Tom could predict with accuracy what number of horses were cantering behind him, he could throw a stone right into the centre of a given ripple, he could guess to a fraction how many lengths of his stick it would take to reach across the playground, and could draw almost perfect squares on his slate without any measurement. But Mr Stelling took no note of those things: he only observed that Tom's faculties failed him before the abstractions hideously symbolized to him in the pages of the Eton Grammar, and that he was in a state bordering on idiocy with regard to the demonstration that two given triangles must be equal - though he could discern with great promptitude and certainty the fact that they were equal. ~ George Eliot

There must have been at least fifty or sixty corners in the main room of the dwarf's house,' the layout artist Tom Codrick lamented, 'because different units were working on the same room and had basic thoughts about what the room was like or the shape of it. ~ Michael Barrier

The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time. ~ Tom Petty

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character. ~ Tom Felton

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another. ~ Tom Wolfe

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar. ~ Tom Robbins

Greitens later wrote in his book, The Heart and the Fist. ~ Tom Manion Tom Sileo

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications. ~ Tom Hiddleston

feet - "Charlotte." Someone inside was using her ~ Tom Wolfe

Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? ~ Tom Cruise

One day [Kahn] walked into a classroom and began a lecture with the words: "Light ... is." There followed a pause that seemed seven days long, just long enough to re-create the world. ~ Tom Wolfe

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording. ~ Tom Jenkinson

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness ~ Tom Izzo

Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it. ~ Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood. ~ Tom Selleck

You got to have patience. Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on. ~ John Steinbeck

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. ~ Tom Kite

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. ~ Tom Clancy

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school. ~ Tom Felton

you are not limited to only what you have been able to do before. ~ Tom Kelley

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for. ~ Tom Hanks

Threats ... are the last resort of the inadequate negotiator. ~ Tom Holt

For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom. ~ Tom Feeney

The new towns of the 1950s and '60s were nothing less than the spatial translation of alienation and control and in these cities power increasingly could relinquish the old forms of advertising in favor of 'the simple organization of the spectacle of objects of consumption, which will only have consumable value illusory to the extent to which they will first of all have been objects of spectacle'
to the extent, that is, they have first appeared on the television screen, which henceforth had to be seen as an urbanistic tool in its own right. ~ Tom McDonough

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are. ~ Tom Spanbauer

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life. ~ Tom Shadyac

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. ~ Tom Watson

It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing. ~ Tom Hodgkinson

Golf will grow so long as it's fun. ~ Tom Watson

I heard this when I was in the Air Force: There's never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve
that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us what we don't deserve
we call that grace. ~ Andy Stanley

Colonel Sanders as played by Hot Daddy Harrison Ford, cracking the whip on some island plantation, topping every native boy, stopping only long enough to enjoy a refreshing Coca Cola. Because every white guy is a blonde, Aryan top. All of us are the Christian Soldiers of Capitalism that flew TWA into your country, depositing AIDs in your brothels and IMF loans in your banks. ~ Tom Cardamone

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people. ~ Thomas J. Stanley

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us. ~ Andy Stanley