Tom Reagan: So, uh, you didn't see Bernie Birnbaum before he was shown across? Clarence "Drop" Johnson: Uh, no? Tom Reagan: Seen him since?
[last lines] Detective Tom Polhaus: [picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it? Sam Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. Detective Tom Polhaus: Huh?
Tom Conlon: Not much of a woman's touch around here. Paddy Conlon: No women for me anymore, Tommy. Tom Conlon: Yeah. Must be tough to find a girl who could take a punch nowadays.
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.
Tom: She took a giant shit on my face. Literally. Alison: Literally? Tom: Well, no, not literally. That's disgusting. What's wrong with you?
Tom: Darling... [Summer looks up at him] Tom: I don't know how to tell you this, but... there's a Chinese family in our bathroom.
Tom: What happens if you fall in love? Summer: Well, you don't believe that, do you? Tom: It's love. It's not Santa Claus.
Johnny Caspar: When you're right you're right, but you never say 'I told you so'. Tom Reagan: So what am I right about? Johnny Caspar: Well, I'll tell ya, but first you gotta promise not to say 'I told you so'. Tom Reagan: I don't say that and I don'...
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.
Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?
It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.
I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the upper one.
In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf r...
The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the v...
I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.
In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.
I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.
