Quotes About Tom Sawyer

#1. Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

Mark Twain

#2. Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.

Mark Twain

#3. The Great Gatsby' [ ... ] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [ ... ]

J.D. Salinger

#4. MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so - because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.

Mark Twain

#5. Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

Samuel Fuller

#6. Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!
Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

#7. The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

Sam Simon

#8. Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time ...

Mary Elizabeth Clark

#9. I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

Robertson Davies

#10. 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

#11. Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Mark Twain

#12. 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.

John Grisham

#13. I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up with it.

Mark Twain

#14. 'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.

Alex Lifeson

#15. Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Grace Metalious

#16. Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.

Mark Twain

#17. 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

#18. Is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual - he is a

Mark Twain

#19. I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

Mark Twain

#20. This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.

Mark Twain

#21. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together. Miss

Mark Twain

#22. If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we'd say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let's not try to rewire them.

Michael Gurian

#23. What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Marsha Norman

#24. It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

Lamar S. Smith

#25. Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

David Brin

#26. 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

#27. Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

Albert Camus

#28. Honest to Christ, give you anything. Anything, baby. But lost enough time. Can't give you that. Space , maybe. Time. No.

Kristen Ashley

#29. Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

Arnold Arre

#30. In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.

Johnny Marr

#31. A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Paul Lockhart

#32. What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Haruki Murakami

#33. Romance
Make eye contact.
Show your form.
Strut.
Grunt.
Throw a stick.
Grunt some more.
Make some moves.
Romance is hard work.
It looks easy on TV.
I'm not sure I will ever get the hang of it.

Katherine Applegate

#34. A mosquito sings in my ear, and I almost feel grateful for the company. I'm even tempted to sing along. It

Markus Zusak

#35. Saddle your dreams before you ride them.

Tom Sawyer

#36. Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.

Mark Twain

#37. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Mark Twain

#38. I am a connoisseur of rain (all of us introverts are).

Vivian Swift

#39. What's your name?"
"Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer."
"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"
"Yes

Mark Twain

#40. As usual, the fickle, unreasoning world took Muff Potter to its bosom and fondled him as lavishly as it had abused him before. But that sort of conduct is to the world's credit; therefore it is not well to find fault with it.

Mark Twain

#41. It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Wen Jiabao

#42. 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