Top 500 Tom Quotes

I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I’m wearing a Tom Ford suit.

I don’t want to be set in music my whole life. I want to experience some of my youth not being Tom Misch, away from the expectations.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I’m just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, ‘Okay, I’ll do that.’

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There’s Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It’s pretty eclectic.

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie ‘Amadeus’ around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

Stuart Broad’s 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted – Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket – but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.

What’s disgraceful is that any Tom, Dick and Harry can open up a clinic and administer Botox.

I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

I learn from Kevin Spacey and Tom Hardy, watching these guys work, the things they all do differently. Tom never stops exploring and discovering, take after take. His mind never turns off.

Tom Brady is a private citizen who has his own political beliefs. He hasn’t particularly advocated for Donald Trump. He hasn’t put himself out there. He’s friends with Donald Trump. He had his ‘Make America Great Again’ hat in his locker.

I am humbled to be welcomed onto the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I’m a Democrat and he’s a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

I admire Tom Ades: he’s a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

I really like a lot of Tom Ford. His leather sneakers are my most worn shoes.

The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that ‘many of us have a road that reaches back into our past’. For him, this is the 92 miles of the A303 – as he subtitles his book, the ‘Highway to the Sun’.

We’re not all like Tom Brady, who just keeps winning Super Bowls.

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, ‘Will you wear it?’ I’d say, ‘Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton’ – that sort of thing. I don’t create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He’s a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.

David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He’s not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he’s David Blum living in a cheap flat.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

Tom Kizzia hasn’t just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he’s lived it. ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.

With any player, especially at quarterback, I don’t care if you’re talking Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Drew Brees: you want to make sure to continue to hammer down the fundamentals, and it all starts with your feet. Everything starts with footwork.

Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘Pygmalion.’ My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.

Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he’s a great player, and what you’ve seen with him is he’s gotten better every year.

The first time I did ‘The Voice,’ I was honestly terrified. You’re with Tom Jones and Will.i.am, seriously mega-talented people, and I felt like I was winging it. Then you realise everyone is in it together.

I can’t believe that I’m sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to represent all the Rogers out there who don’t have a seat at the table. People of colour were not at the table, and now I am there, I want to change things.

Tom Cruise, he’s a lot more famous than me.

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he’d expect her to cook.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I’ve thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

I have tremendous respect for Christopher Darden, and I recognize him as an individual of integrity, who did his job to the best of his ability, and I want to tell him thank you. Thank you for enduring hatred from his own community, for being ostracized and called an Uncle Tom and a sellout.

Shoes are important, of course. I love my Lanvin sneakers – they go with a lot of things. And then I think a nice bag is great, so you carry your computer or whatever else in style. I’ve been carrying a Tom Ford backpack lately.

Its all been very flattering and fun. It’s a thrill to be recognized. I don’t know, if it gets to the point like Tom Cruise, who can’t walk down the street.

I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I said, ‘I’m just from the Valley!’ Just from the San Fernando Valley!

It was Jack’s and Tom Watson’s day yesterday. But today, it’s another day.

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I’d go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

My favourite designers always create a strong silhouette, like McQueen and Tom Ford and Alaia. I like structured things that you can throw on, and it’s almost like armour, and you’re, like, ready for the day.

One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I’m also a big fan of St. Vincent and Leslie Feist.

My favorite actors are Jim Carrey and Chris Farley, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams. Robin Williams is the best – to be able to do all that comedy but also be heartbreaking.

You know, duality has always been a strong theme throughout ‘Venom’-focused stories, whether it’s in the comics or in movies, and that’s something I think that Tom Hardy’s played with in a lot of his work.

Tom Hanks, who starred in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

He’s an American treasure, I would be honored to fight Tom Hanks.

We see Tom Brady get into it with his coaches and he’s the greatest of all time. That’s just passion, man. That’s passion and emotion.

I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.

Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.

I love Tom Ford loafers.

Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, ‘Here’s the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.’ ‘What about blue,’ I asked. He said, ‘Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?’

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I’d love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it’s women who throw their underwear at me when I’m performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn’t actually happen. The paradox is that the bigger the film you write, the less likely it is to happen.

Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it’s a little more refined, visually.

And he doesn’t really – it’s never awkward when you’re talking to Tom Hanks. I’ve never seen him have an awkward conversation with anybody.

Understand, I’m in awe of Tom Brady. He grows on me by the game.

Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.