It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as w...
TOM CHAPIN My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for re...
TOM CHAPIN Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan ...
TOM CHAPIN I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
HARRY CHAPIN Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are n...
HARRY CHAPIN Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles o...
EDWARD CHAPIN Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you'...
HARRY CHAPIN Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgiv...
EDWARD CHAPIN To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a s...
EDWARD CHAPIN The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorifi...
EDWARD CHAPIN A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of h...
EDWARD CHAPIN Those planes were not meant to fly without both engines. When they lost one, they couldn't keep thei...
DOLORIA CHAPIN When in doubt do something.
HARRY CHAPIN Cotton Patch Gospel, ... The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John.
HARRY CHAPIN But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are
HARRY CHAPIN We're both running in the same race together. We both work so hard to get people to come to Chattano...
BILL CHAPIN She knows more of love than the poets can say,And her eyes offer something that won't go away.
HARRY CHAPIN Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep th...
HARRY CHAPIN My son turned 10 just the other day. He said, 'Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play - Can yo...
HARRY CHAPIN I came in with questions about insurance, and they told me my husband was eligible for medals. He ne...
DOLORIA CHAPIN There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass.
DOUG CHAPIN There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass. The theory that new technolog...
DOUG CHAPIN Any of those races that hinge on a real or alleged error could throw us into the same kind of electo...
DOUG CHAPIN Florida has always been the poster-child for reform, first in a bad way in 2000 but then in a good w...
DOUG CHAPIN The possibility for error, and the willingness of people to challenge those errors, are both growing...
DOUG CHAPIN In voting technology, the pace of innovation was outpacing the regulation.
DOUG CHAPIN Poll workers are a crucial element of the election process. You can buy new machines, you can educat...
DOUG CHAPIN There is a potential for chaos. Can't predict where it'll be, but there is definitely potential.
DOUG CHAPIN There may be something. But I'm not aware of another race that's still pending out there.
DOUG CHAPIN When in doubt, do something.
HARRY CHAPIN Each plane was making two or three missions a day. Some of them were just terrible. They were gettin...
DOLORIA CHAPIN But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
HARRY CHAPIN Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its al...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connect...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narro...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowa...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The grea...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN The essence of justice is mercy.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simpl...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its al...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an indiv...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam,...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whisperi...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Neutral men are the devil's allies.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a se...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injur...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a gold...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the j...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Neutral men are the devil's allies.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Every action of our lives touches o...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cow...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injur...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of h...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowa...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like t...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The grea...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN The essence of justice is mercy.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam,...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Camp...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narro...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
ROY D. CHAPIN JR. Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ...
TOM REISS Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca...
TOM LANDRY There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
TOM CRUISE Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
TOM CRUISE Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo...
TOM CRUISE When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ...
TOM CRUISE I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An...
TOM STOPPARD Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
TOM STOPPARD The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t...
TOM STOPPARD For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...
TOM STOPPARD Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
TOM CONTI I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart...
TOM CRUISE Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all...
TOM BRADY Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
TOM BRADY So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me...
TOM BRADY If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
TOM BRADY My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t...
TOM BRADY There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y...
TOM BRADY I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th...
TOM BRADY The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
TOM BRADY When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
TOM BRADY I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'...
TOM BRADY Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome...
TOM DELONGE I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
TOM BRADY What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis...
TOM LANTOS I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser...
TOM HOLLAND Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi...
TOM CRUISE I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool...
TOM HIDDLESTON Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...
TOM WAITS Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac...
TOM RIDGE America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a...
TOM HARKIN My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD