Tom Robinson: I can't use my left hand at all. I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was twelve years old. All my muscles were tore loose.
Nick the Greek: Just get me a sample. Tom: No can do. Nick the Greek: What's that? Some place near Katmandu? Meet me halfway, mate.
Adolph: Hey, horses got knees? Tom Reagan: I don't know... fetlocks. Adolph: Well if I was a horse, I'd be down on my fetlocks praying you don't bet on me.
Tom Doniphon: I know those law books mean alot to you, but not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems.
Tom Smykowski: [Smykowski is in a full-body cast] Just remember, if you hang in there long enough, good things can happen in this world. I mean, look at me.
Bob Slydell: [telling Lumbergh who's going to be fired] There's two more people we can easily lose, and then there's Tom Smykowski... He's useless. [laughs] Bob Slydell: Gone.
Grandma Sarah: This can't be Santa Rio! My son, Tom Turner, said it was a thriving town! Kelly: It was; but when the silver run out, the thrivin' run out with it.
The Countess: Go with the real guy, honey, we're limited. Rita: Go with Tom! He's got no flaws! Delilah: Go with SOMEBODY, child, 'cause I's gettin' bored.
Gil Shepherd: Where's Tom? Cecilia: Why? Gil Shepherd: Well, he's my character. I created him. Cecilia: Didn't the man who wrote the movie do that?
Kitty Fane: [Talking to her mother about marrying Walter] Please, Mother. The idea that any women should marry any Tom, Dick or Harry regardless of her own feelings is simply prehistoric.
[singing in a bar] Tom Hedden, Charlie Venner: Now some men goes for women, and some men goes for boys. But My love's warm and beautiful, and makes a baah-ing noise.
Carl Fredricksen: I believe I made my position to your boss very clear. Construction Foreman Tom: You poured prune juice in his gas tank. Carl Fredricksen: Yeah, that was good.
Burt Munro: If you don't follow your dreams Thomas, you might as well be a vegetable. Tom: What type of vegetable?
Tom Conlon: So you found God, huh? That's awesome. See, Mom kept calling out for him but he wasn't around. I guess Jesus was down at the mill forgiving all the drunks. Who knew?
[first lines] Paddy Conlon: [arriving home] Tommy? Jesus! What are you doing here? Tom Conlon: I was just passing through. I figured why not have a belt with the old man.
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