Cartoon Tom Quotes & Sayings

It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily forgotten is the fact that "the West" is a relative concept only. Without an "East" or a "non-West" to compare it with, it would quite simply not exist; there would be no word for it in our vocabulary. If the concept of the West did not exist, of course, the spatial variations within the geographical area now subsumed under "the West" would loom larger in our minds. The difference between France and America might seem just as great as those between China and the West. — Paul A. Cohen

We are all God's animated cartoons. — Tom Hanks

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great. — Tom Ford

A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way. — Tomm Moore

It was a good day for a parade, sunny and unseasonably warm, the sky a Sunday school cartoon of heaven. — Tom Perrotta

The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons. — Tom Wujec

You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see. — Francesca Lia Block

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero. — Tom Berenger

I was sometimes irritated by the unrelenting inquisitiveness and criticism, but there was no shortage of help or advice or just someone to talk to if I needed it. It was hard to imagine a foreigner descending on an English community and being welcomed with such immediate acceptance and hospitality. — John Mole

This is a business. Like any other business. — Walter Schloss

I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me. — Tom Kenny

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. — Jim Butcher

I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!"-Gazzy — James Patterson

Something changes in the brain when you know surviving the next few minutes is determined solely by your ability to go unnoticed. — RaeLynn Fry

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. — Slavoj Zizek

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world. — Yoshihiko Noda

Cameron threw her hands up in frustration. "What is this so-called 'look'?" Whatever it was, she was going to have to start taking extreme measures to guard against it.
Amy grinned. "You know the Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom hasn't eaten for days and he imagines Jerry looking like a ham? Kind of like that. — Julie James

The hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry - cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You can't get into hearing it. There's nothing to hear-'bleep!, blop! scratch!' and it comes fast; everything's first take. That'll change the way you look at life. — Howard Roberts

The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly. — Maurice Wilkes

My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations. — Tom Tomorrow

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music. — Tina Weymouth

Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott