Top 50 Quotes About Toms
#1. Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Malcolm Cowley
#2. People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.
Blake Mycoskie
#3. We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
John Michael Hayes
#4. She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free ...
Sarah Waters
#5. Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Arthur Koestler
#6. Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.
Blake Mycoskie
#7. There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.
Mariella Frostrup
#8. Five toms bound and gagged. One ruptured scrotum ...
Rachel Vincent
#9. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anyone else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.
E. E. Cummings
#10. I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.
Jalen Rose
#11. I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.
Blake Mycoskie
#12. I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.
Blake Mycoskie
#13. In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said 'looks like we're a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I'll never forget.
Tom Hanks
#14. I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth.
Ryan Eggold
#15. People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
Blake Mycoskie
#16. When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
Blake Mycoskie
#17. The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.
George R R Martin
#18. The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
Blake Mycoskie
#19. I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.
Blake Mycoskie
#20. The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
Tommy Lee
#21. She tied a robe around herself even though she had no intention of leaving her room - one could never be too careful about avoiding Peeping Toms in a new place.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#22. But then we are old and have been to the wars and value our fast-diminishing freedoms unlike those jingoes now beating their tom-toms in Times Square in favor of all-out war for other Americans to fight.
Gore Vidal
#23. When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.
Blake Mycoskie
#24. Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before.
Nick Hornby
#25. You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.
Blake Mycoskie
#26. We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.
Blake Mycoskie
#27. TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.
Blake Mycoskie
#28. Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.
Hal Sutton
#29. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success.
Blake Mycoskie
#30. Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.
Blake Mycoskie
#31. TOMS is no longer a shoe company ... we're a one-for-one company.
Blake Mycoskie
#32. You see, my poor fellow, the hearts of women and she-cats are abysses that neither men nor toms will ever fathom.
Henri Murger
#33. For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
Chad Smith
#34. With TOMS, I found a way to create sustainable giving and consistently help those who are in need.
Blake Mycoskie
#35. I can't imagine what it's like to go through life without shoes to protect your feet, and yet millions of kids do it. That's why TOMS is such an incredible company - it gives shoes to children who need them!
Amanda Hearst
#37. It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.
David Toms
#38. Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.
William Zinsser
#40. There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that.
Tom Brady
#42. Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
Rod Serling
#43. One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.
David Gergen
#44. When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.
Johnny Depp
#45. Obviously, I'm kind of loyal to Tom [Welling] because that's who I work with so to me he's my Superman.
Erica Durance
#46. Our region is going to be in chaos for a long time, ... The media's not playing it up to make it seem worse than it is. The reality is that it's as bad or worse than what you're seeing on TV. It's going to take a lot of help from a lot of people to get everybody back to living a normal life again.
David Toms
#47. A stunner ... reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.
James Rollins
#48. While everyone else is in the spa, im gonna shower because im Tom Daley
Tom Daley
#49. The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone.
Peter Farrelly
#50. Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise)
Nicole Kidman
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