Quotes About Tom & Jerry

#1. 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

#2. I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.

Jason Lee

#3. Some people are born to weirdness," Jerry said, "and others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Tom Upton

#4. They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

Bob Geldof

#5. Failure comes into every life...Just make sure it doesn't stay.

Bille Baty

#6. Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Jerry Pournelle

#7. What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.

Trey Gowdy

#8. Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Trevor Brooking

#9. Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

Tom Petty

#10. The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.

Tom Brokaw

#11. Who is destroying the mountains of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia?...It isn't the coal companies. It's us...You did this. Okay, forget the guilt. How can we change that?

Erik Reece

#12. I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

Monica Seles

#13. If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I'm more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on 'SNL.' I did it in the club.

Joe Piscopo

#14. The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling.

Lois Lowry

#15. People are more than fun than anybody.

Dorothy Parker

#16. We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

Paul Simon

#17. It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

Laini Taylor

#18. The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

Rihanna

#19. Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Tom Shales

#21. I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

Julie Walters

#22. The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Joseph Barbera

#24. Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus to invite inspiration ... Inspiration is a sensation in the body. It can be invited upon your will and willingness to experience it taking you over..

Marjo-Riikka Makela

#25. It's real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you're living a Tom and Jerry episode.

Paul Neilan

#26. Wake up, get up ... Shut up. Listen up ... Throw up ... Mix up, Goof up ... Hurry up ... "
"How's your day?"
"Looking up.

Bill Watterson

#27. Being a mom is hard, but I don't want people to feel like they always have to go straight to the TV dinner or go to the fast food because you have a busy, hectic life.

Tia Mowry

#28. 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

#29. I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

Lang Lang

#30. Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Tommy Thompson

#31. 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