Tom Mcneal Quotes

#1. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't

Tom McNeal

#2. And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#3. I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

Clive Owen

#4. Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

Tom McNeal

#5. You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it ... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.

Tom McNeal

#6. It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you.

Tom McNeal

#7. I will always care for you, even if we're not together and even if we're far, far away.

Tom McNeal

#8. Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.

Laurie Anderson

#9. All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

Heinrich Heine

#10. For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.

Tom McNeal

#11. I'm saying she looks fine on the outside, but inside is somebody who's going to need a man a lot more than he's going to need her.

Tom McNeal

#12. Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world ... but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.

Tom McNeal

#13. The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

Sunday Adelaja

#14. In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation was going to be a permanent fact of the American way of life.

Murray Rothbard

#15. God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

J.G. Ballard

#16. He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.

Tom McNeal

#17. You can't let buffoons rule your life.

Tom McNeal

#18. She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

Tom McNeal

#19. It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I've got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.

Lee Kuan Yew

#20. One does not know love until it arrives, and it's arrival will always surprise.

Tom McNeal

#21. And then, before I could shout in alarm, the tear spilled free - and there was nothing for me to do but rush past and, with the smallest draft, ever so slightly alter its flight. The tear landed, safely, on her cheek. Her eyes snapped open in surprise.

Tom McNeal

#22. Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.

Tom McNeal

#23. Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

Tom McNeal

#24. Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

Tom McNeal

#25. The kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio ...

Tom McNeal

#26. And here being good meant not being a Republican.

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