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It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!


Rudyard Kipling

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RUDYARD KIPLING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The Tommy brand has lost a bit of its luster.
WENDY LIEBMANN If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is...
RUDYARD KIPLING Tommy is recognized as one of the very best investigators in this state, especially on cold cases an...
GROVER SMITH In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were on...
NEIL GAIMAN Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy...
LOUIE ANDRUS I'm really happy with the play of Ian and Tommy. Tommy played really well in the cage for us today.
STEVE ALLEN When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh...
RACHEL TUCKER Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.
GAYLORD PERRY When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy ...
HUGH JACKMAN It would be nice of their manager Tommy Taylor to ring us rather than go to the media, especially wh...
GARY ROBERTS I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a bi...
BARRY SONNENFELD If you can try to nap where someone's sitting,
Although there is another empty chair,
Then...
HENRY N. BEARD They offered us Tommy Lee , they didn't offer us Snow White. ... Tommy Lee Goes to College.
HARVEY PERLMAN It would rival that of the notorious Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape.
LEODIS MATTHEWS Please Tommy. Please.
JAMES DASHNER Tommy Lee Goes to College.
TOMMY LEE Tommy Lee Goes to College.
MATT ELLIS I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,
HEATH MILLER The Ruffed Padanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imita...
MIKE HARDING Tommy had completely forgotten that he was horny. He had always been horny, and had accepted that he...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE He's still a great quarterback, and I had some great years with Tommy. It's just a matter of getting...
HINES WARD I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me a...
RUDYARD KIPLING This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
JOHN MELLENCAMP Of course you feel extra pity for Tommy ending with losing on penalties. In a way it's always easier...
LARS LAGERBACK What about Tommy Lee Jones?
KATHI NAHASS It's a shame the way that game turned out because Tommy deserves more recognition than he's going to...
ED JASPER The Tommy Moe League is just for fun.
DAVE CROSSWHITE Tommy went through a purgatory of second thoughts.
JOHN SCHUERHOLZ Tommy said that international football just isn't for him,
LAWRIE SANCHEZ I was a little concerned. We let two leads get away this week, but Tommy made the pitches and the gu...
LANDY FAEDO The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
THOMAS HOVING We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin...
GARY FRANK The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be...
AARON SORKIN With a guy coming off Tommy John surgery, it's usually the second year those guys come around. We li...
ALLARD BAIRD The Fed is sticking to its guns,
ROBERT WALTERS I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the r...
PAT PAULSEN This whole thing for Tommy is about fighting in Madison Square Garden. He would do that for free.
ED ZBIKOWSKI In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Tommy gave me my first chance on stage. And I won't forget it.
FRANKIE VALLI Chuck Norris has a bear carpet in his house, the bear isn't dead its just afraid to move.
ANONYMOUS I'm not going to lie — I was a little nervous. I know Tommy has a lot of heart. It was hot out ther...
LUKE SHIELDS The worst thing anyone ever said about Tommy was that he was a nice person.
BERT AMMERMAN You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I have a lot of confidence. I have a lot of faith in the fact that Tommy and I will be found not gui...
LORI ALLAIN Who told you I was yellow? You're white Tommy -- white as the flag of surrender!
JACK JOHNSON And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I’m still all man. I’m just a m...
VICKTOR ALEXANDER I was all excited. I went and shook hands with Tommy, and the first thing he pointed out to me was I...
STEVE BALLMER We had a few breakdowns and they hurt us. But make no mistake; Marblehead is a quality team. Their g...
BOB GILLIGAN Happy Birthday Tommy. We had one for you. Mickey Mantle.
TED WILLIAMS Tommy has boxed since age 10. It's all he knows.
HILMER KENTY I don't think you have to worry about Tommy driving recklessly again.
FRED PETERS He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like ...
STEPHEN KING I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an...
IAN WATSON And you, Tommy” the boy said, lowering his voice. “You’ve got a lot of nerve coming here and a...
JAMES DASHNER He started with the ski team on Big Mountain, right along with Tommy.
CLIFF PERSONS J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome...
JOHN LLOYD I went to the toilet in Saturday's match with (Tommy) Haas because I was tired and not feeling too g...
ANDREI PAVEL Tommy has that knack for finding a soft area in the slot. Same spot he missed from earlier, but he h...
ADAM BURISH There is a tremendous amount of opportunity with their Tommy Hilfiger women's business. That should ...
JEFF STINSON I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its u...
OSCAR WILDE Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say a...
BARRY SONNENFELD He smiled at her, and Sophie’s emotions went to war. She had always admired Banallt’s intellect ...
CAROLYN JEWEL They offered us Tommy Lee, they didn't offer us Snow White,
HARVEY PERLMAN They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Drexler has done a brilliant job there, and very quickly. Too bad Tommy didn't get Mickey Drexler.
ROBIN LEWIS I think Tommy is better than he ever was. I really mean that. He throws inside now and you just can'...
BOBBY COX We were doing a fake slant to me and a pitch to Willie, and from what Tommy was saying he had a hard...
DAN KREIDER The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my v...
FRANK SINATRA Really we can play either Tommy or Tyler and we know they'll stop all the shots we let by.
CAM BROWN But that's nothing new. We're going to be a running team whether it's Ben or Tommy or Charlie at qua...
JEROME BETTIS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually ha...
BARRY SONNENFELD At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph...
ASAP ROCKY Going in, we didn't think Tommy was going to be able to play this week, (but) he looked pretty good....
MARK WHIPPLE Tommy is a very good player, with good speed that can be deceiving. He's very tricky on the ice, and...
JIM DAKIN Tommy asks where Carolyn is.
"She's at Cindy's."
"They live together now," Salvador added....
GIORGE LEEDY My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean P...
WALTON GOGGINS In certain circumstances, basically shit ones, it’s fight or flight. With Tommy it’s always frig...
TERRY WEIBLE MURPHY I remember one time I saw Tommy Lasorda throw out the first pitch for a game and with all his baseba...
JOE HEGLER That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental librar...
AL JARREAU He looked a nice horse on the day and he won well. There are no plans for him at the moment, but he ...
FRANK BERRY Tommy really brings a lot of excitement to the tour every week. He's a high-powered player and you r...
COREY KISTNER It takes hard work, resourcefulness, perseverance and courage to succeed. Brad and the Tommy Hilfige...
TOMMY HILFIGER Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
SIEGFRIED SASSOON Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives
SIEGFRIED SASSOON She was up against it to begin with and she still has an extremely tough row to hoe. It certainly he...
JIM DORNAN Tommy has to be the best keeper in Class S if not one of the top two or three in the state.
RICK ANTHONY I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mi...
BARRY SONNENFELD For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Not to take anything away from the other guys, but Tommy has got a little desire to go after this $1...
DANNY WISEMAN Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hu...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the wa...
WILLIAM SHATNER God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our L...
BOB RILEY I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actuall...
BARRY SONNENFELD At the front door I see Tommy, a dark, unhappy shape in the middle of the sunny afternoon. We match,...
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RUDYARD KIPLING The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any...
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an...
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,...
RUDYARD KIPLING Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child.
RUDYARD KIPLING An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und...
RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais...
RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha...
RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B...
RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade...
RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...
RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...
RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long.
RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
RUDYARD KIPLING Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ...
RUDYARD KIPLING East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
RUDYARD KIPLING