Quotes About Tom Sawyer In Huckleberry Finn

#1. Taste is an evolution and refinement of one's personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.

Norma Kamali

#2. Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. Like it! Yes - the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.

Mark Twain

#4. Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.

Caroline Lawrence

#5. I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

Stephen Fry

#7. Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.

Nikki Turner

#8. I make sure to always have some spinach between my teeth so people are disinclined to bother me.
Survival strategies for the 21st century.

Graham Parke

#9. They say, when facing the onslaught of tooth and claw, a creature's heart can simply quit.

Ellen Hopkins

#10. Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Max Lucado

#11. Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

Jim Henson

#12. I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

Keith Thibodeaux

#13. Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

Rand Paul

#14. She could not trust people who wore all their "weird" on the outside. It left so little within to discover.

Thomm Quackenbush

#15. Love's in need of love today ... don't delay ... send yours in right away

Stevie Wonder

#16. Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

Lyall Watson

#17. What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

Robert Coover

#18. Who says life is fair, where is that written?

William Goldman