We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
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Related We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... WALT WHITMAN We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... ROBIN WILLIAMS And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. Bu... TOM SCHULMAN We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of ... N.H. KLEINBAUM We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... N.H. KLEINBAUM We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... TOM SCHULMAN But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! N.H. KLEINBAUM We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. TOM SCHULMAN The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else,... KAMAND KOJOURI To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat... MARTIN SUAREZ Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po... WILLIAM BLAKE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can r... HENRY R. LUCE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can... HENRY R. LUCE A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We are encouraging people who write poetry or don't write poetry to get their work out there. We wan... AMANDA CUNNINGHAM Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest... RACHEL CARSON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself... MOUTASEM ALGHARATI We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetr... CAROL ANN DUFFY I write romance because I love to read romance. RACHEL GIBSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens ... C. K. WILLIAMS In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. EARLE BIRNEY Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your p... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill ... TARA BRACH A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to b... CLAIRE TOMALIN "We are most alive when our hearts are filled with love and kindness." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL We are the same, and we are different. We are the same because we all are members of the same human ... JONATHAN CHEN I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and... MARGARET ATWOOD The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respect... AVIJEET DAS There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about. DEBASISH MRIDHA You are worth more than you think you are SOTONYE ANGA We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ... WENDY MASS When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expre... THOMAS MOORE Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ... HENRY CLOUD We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist a... CICERO There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --ex... STEPHANE MALLARME There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /excep... STéPHANE MALLARMé The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God. L.J. VANIER We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We are here to create, not destroy. VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug... ALDOUS HUXLEY I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, becaus... BILLY COLLINS In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying th... MAYA ANGELOU The night will be filled with human poetry of language and common threads of universal experience in... JEFF METCALF Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birken... NANCY LUBLIN Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. FEDERICO FELLINI Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble ca... JACK HORNER Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream l... WALTER JON WILLIAMS Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies... F. SIONIL JOSE Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from th... ERICA JONG I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing ... L. E. MODESITT, JR. These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything. JACK VANCE I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it... NATASHA TRETHEWEY We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things fro... NAOMI KLEIN . . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones... LISEL MUELLER Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think ... ROBERT MORGAN Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by an... OMAR KHAYYáM For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written —... ANGELA CARTER Love, Life, Art, Religion, Poetry- All these things are subjective. Subjective to our own beautiful ... CHARLIE JAMES Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone ... THE AMERICAN POETRY AND LITERACY PROJECT When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven. DEBASISH MRIDHA I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for ... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is... ADRIAN MITCHELL I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re... GARY SHTEYNGART The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever s... JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. VANESSA REDGRAVE Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and... ABERJHANI She's a farm girl, but doesn't fit in. She doesn't want to work on the farm; she'd rather write poet... ALICE BESTERMAN We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is lo... ANGIE KARAN What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting musi... ADAM BRAUN
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screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. TOM SCHULMAN We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. TOM SCHULMAN Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary TOM SCHULMAN Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because, the longer you wait to begin, the less likely... TOM SCHULMAN TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, y... TOM SCHULMAN Carpe Diem TOM SCHULMAN I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own... TOM SCHULMAN We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... TOM SCHULMAN Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, T... TOM SCHULMAN I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. TOM SCHULMAN And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. Bu... TOM SCHULMAN I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me. A sweaty toothed mad man with a stare that p... TOM SCHULMAN Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. TOM SCHULMAN No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world TOM SCHULMAN Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be. TOM SCHULMAN When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think TOM SCHULMAN No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. TOM SCHULMAN "So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted... TOM SCHULMAN I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real con... NEV SCHULMAN If you want proof that 'Catfish' was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall... NEV SCHULMAN Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being l... NEV SCHULMAN I am not here to entertain straight people. SARAH SCHULMAN Online, you're providing each other with the good aspects of being together as far as communicat... NEV SCHULMAN You'll find yourself questioning, was this about me? Was this about the person next to me? Was this ... CATHY SCHULMAN I was trying to maintain my ethical compass and do what was right. But in pursuit of what was right ... CATHY SCHULMAN Thank you for embracing our film about love and tolerance and truth. CATHY SCHULMAN Thank you to all the members of the Academy for embracing our film about love, and about tolerance, ... CATHY SCHULMAN We are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breat... CATHY SCHULMAN I have the interesting distinction of having made five movies in a row without being paid. I can't p... CATHY SCHULMAN And his long coats. He does an ankle length Russian broad-tail topped with chinchilla, and a great b... STANLEY SCHULMAN Jonathan has a proven track record of driving results in this space. His innovative approach combine... DAN SCHULMAN People really are looking for this perfect sort of dream person, but it's hard to go out every n... NEV SCHULMAN This is another step AT&T is taking to accelerate the Internet's evolution from an information resou... DAN SCHULMAN By making a wide array of AT&T's communications services available from the most heavily trafficked ... DAN SCHULMAN If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then th... NEV SCHULMAN Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, he... SARAH SCHULMAN As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and t... CANDY SCHULMAN I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most p... NEV SCHULMAN The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want. NEV SCHULMAN While the effect of these charges will adversely impact fourth-quarter results, we believe they are ... DANIEL SCHULMAN We appreciate the contribution that Heidi has made and respect her decision to pursue opportunities ... DANIEL SCHULMAN This important agreement with Lycos is the first in a series of steps AT&T will take to provide peop... DAN SCHULMAN Volatility and interest rates are higher. Those are things that help hedge funds perform. We think p... ROBERT SCHULMAN It was just a wonderful mixing of elements. STANLEY SCHULMAN Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but... TOM TOM During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures TOM TOM Am I good enough? Trust. TOM The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ... TOM REISS Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca... TOM LANDRY There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro... TOM HANKS Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes. TOM CRUISE Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. TOM CRUISE Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo... TOM CRUISE When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ... TOM CRUISE I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days. TOM CRUISE I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod... TOM CRUISE When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include... TOM CRUISE Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t... TOM CRUISE I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta... TOM CRUISE If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ... TOM CRUISE Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. TOM CRUISE What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,... TOM CRUISE I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. TOM CRUISE As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I... TOM CRUISE The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo... TOM CRUISE The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur... TOM CRUISE I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&... TOM CRUISE I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o... TOM CRUISE I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'... TOM CRUISE Do I make mistakes? Yeah. TOM CRUISE I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl... TOM CRUISE I go without sleep, I just go hard. TOM CRUISE When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to... TOM CRUISE Football is unconditional love. TOM BRADY My favorite meal has always been fried chicken. TOM WATSON The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. TOM HIDDLESTON Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c... TOM REISS Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions. KIANA TOM Good things, when short, are twice as good. TOM STOPPARD Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper... TOM STOPPARD The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th... TOM STOPPARD I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. TOM STOPPARD My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. TOM STOPPARD The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ... TOM STOPPARD I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones... TOM STOPPARD Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. TOM STOPPARD Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. TOM STOPPARD All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An... TOM STOPPARD Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. TOM STOPPARD The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t... TOM STOPPARD For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea... TOM STOPPARD Every exit is an entry somewhere else. TOM STOPPARD Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. TOM CONTI I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart... TOM CRUISE Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil... TOM BRADY Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all... TOM BRADY Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ... TOM BRADY The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player. TOM BRADY I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast. TOM BRADY So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me... TOM BRADY If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful. TOM BRADY My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t... TOM BRADY There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo... TOM BRADY I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y... TOM BRADY I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch... TOM BRADY You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th... TOM BRADY The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win. TOM BRADY When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off. TOM BRADY I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'... TOM BRADY Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome... TOM DELONGE I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal. TOM BRADY What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t... TOM COTTON So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis... TOM LANTOS I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser... TOM HOLLAND Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust... TOM DOUGLAS I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi... TOM CRUISE I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool... TOM HIDDLESTON Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever... TOM WAITS Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor. TOM DOUGLAS You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac... TOM RIDGE America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a... TOM HARKIN My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p... TOM DOUGLAS I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita... TOM FORD Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema... TOM HANKS I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more. TOM JONES We are set to make very bad history. TOM WILSON These days an income is something you can't live without - or within. TOM WILSON If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?... TOM WILSON What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience. TOM WILSON The waist is a terrible thing to mind. TOM WILSON Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. TOM WILSON If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l... TOM WILSON Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us! TOM WILSON Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have. TOM WILSON There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past. TOM WILSON Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow. TOM WILSON About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. TOM WILSON If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one. TOM WILSON I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while. TOM WILSON Mondays are the potholes in the road of life. TOM WILSON A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range! TOM WILSON Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. TOM WOLFE It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. TOM STOPPARD Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. TOM WOLFE Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease... TOM ALLEN Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,... TOM HANKS Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. B... TOM STOPPARD Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the s... TOM FOLSOM The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. TOM LANDRY From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite... TOM STOPPARD No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w... TOM WATSON Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i... TOM WATSON Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo... TOM PETTY I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w... TOM STOPPARD Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you. TOM LEHRER I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. TOM HANKS Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk. TOM WAITS A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. TOM STOPPARD I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f... TOM COTTON When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I... TOM STOPPARD We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. TOM STOPPARD The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a n... TOM STOPPARD The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bi... TOM ODELL After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee... TOM BRADY There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E... TOM ROBBINS I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I... TOM FORD When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would g... TOM STOPPARD In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student pro... TOM STOPPARD In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic ... TOM VILSACK My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of N... TOM FELTON Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a membe... TOM SHALES The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewardi... TOM LEHMAN Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. TOM STOPPARD It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. TOM BROKAW If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times. TOM CRUISE I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my al... TOM CRUISE I love kids. I was a kid myself, once. TOM CRUISE I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I rea... TOM CRUISE Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journe... TOM CRUISE Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in.... TOM CRUISE I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even... TOM CRUISE I always look for a challenge and something that's different. TOM CRUISE I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning. TOM CRUISE I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life. TOM CRUISE I'm a romantic. TOM CRUISE When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the mot... TOM CRUISE Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm ... TOM CRUISE I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me. TOM CRUISE I don't care who you are, life has challenges. TOM CRUISE I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the who... TOM CRUISE Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them. TOM CRUISE It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my l... TOM CRUISE 'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. Wha... TOM HANKS When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was ... TOM HIDDLESTON I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fa... TOM HICKS There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough ... TOM HOLLAND Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd b... TOM SEAVER We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails... TOM PETERS The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason. TOM COUGHLIN You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my cale... KIANA TOM