Tin Roof Quotes

#1. I used to come down from New Rochelle and go to Radio City. They'd have a floor show and a movie. I'm showing my age, but I saw 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'Broken Arrow' with Jimmy Stewart. It was a great way for a kid to see a movie.

Vincent Pastore

#2. Like a Cat on a hot tin roof

Tennessee Williams

#3. I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'

Tracy Letts

#4. I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Margo Martindale

#5. Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof ...

Tennessee Williams

#6. Rain was roaring on the tin roof now, and lightning struck close by, blue-white and sharp with ozone. We rode it together, forked and light-blind, breathless, and the thunder rolled through our bones.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

Michael Biehn

#8. When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?

Drake

#9. He dances all night, utterly naked and composed of nothing but six and a half feet of pale sinew. He could dance to a field of crickets, to the sound of rain on a tin roof, to a stampede.

Thomm Quackenbush

#10. I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

Tamara Tunie

#11. (This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.

Beryl Markham

#12. They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to see it and die in it. At night their corpses pankled down on the tin roof.

Charles Portis

#13. A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

Chelsea Clinton

#14. It just started raining here in the Philippines. I love the sound of rain on a tin roof. It sounds so majestic.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#15. While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

Bruce Fogle

#16. I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets ... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

Dorothy Parker

#17. Back in the cabin I light the fire and sit sighing and there are leaves skittering on the tin roof, it's August in Big Sur
I fall asleep in the chair and when I wake up I'm facing the thick little tangled woods outside the door and I suddenly remember them from long ago

Jack Kerouac

#18. The rough pitter-patter of rain against the tin roof caused me to stir in my sleep, but I struggled to fight it. I yearned to remain under the warmth of my thick quilt, wandering aimlessly through the dream world. But, alas, I knew reality would ease its way in and pull me out.

K.A. Poe

#19. And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge.

Yann Martel

#20. Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Sonya Hartnett

#21. What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew ... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ...

Tennessee Williams

#22. The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.

Carroll Baker

#23. I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

Gene Wilder

#24. A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

James Scott Bell

#25. and all who trained, slept, and shat within its walls.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#26. I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.

Jonathan Davis

#27. I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

Tertullian

#28. To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.

Radhanath Swami

#29. Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

Anthony Bourdain

#30. Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Margaret Mead

#31. You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

Donald Trump

#32. Some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense ...

John Geddes