This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

The public, Tom said the man told him, wanted realism, and his play wasn't that.

During an embarrassing home loss to Atlanta in 1987, Bright told the media that he was " horrified " at coach Tom Landry's play calling.

Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her, that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.

Dewar dealt with the exams results fiasco and the lorry drivers ' strike, and attended the Labour party conference in Brighton in September, but at the end of September told the historian Tom Devine in Dublin that if there was no surge of the energy of old, he would have to reappraise the situation within a few months time.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

Chief of Staff Captain Aloysius Tom Ur told troops in January 2004 that the 2004 strength of 3, 000 would be reduced by one-third, and that during 2004, the force's personnel branch would merge with the support branch into a new organisation.

His counsel, Tom Shields QC, told the court, " Mr Williams is not, and has never been, homosexual.

Luke was the first Duke to perform the " hood slide " across The General Lee, which is seen in the opening credits of the show ( a shot taken from the second episode, " Daisy's Song ") and later told by Tom Wopat to be an accident because his foot got caught on the side of the General Lee when he attempted to jump across the hood ; he also caught his thigh on the hood's radio antenna, cutting himself, resulting in such antennas being removed from later versions of the General Lee.

" The television show had come out of nowhere ," best friend Tom Lizzio told Rolling Stone.

When the sighting was made public in 1992, the British Defence Secretary Tom King was told, " There is no knowledge in the MoD of a ' black ' programme of this nature, although it would not surprise the relevant desk officers in the Air Staff and Defence Intelligence Staff if it did exist.

Later at the bar, Roger tells Tom that he is writing a book called They don't call me Roger for nothing, but is told that he can't publish it because it is disgusting, but someone from the News of the World says that they will publish his book in their paper and pay him £ 50, 000.

Murphy was understanding during the meeting, but told Tom he ought to return the next day once he had time to consider this new information.

In 1986, Baker told an interviewer, " Tom Baker did it for seven years.

Tom still feels some affection for her until he is told by Betty, Molly's older sister, that her innocence had been taken before Tom by Will Barnes, a country gallant.

Tom is told to take her to Upton, the nearest town.

To compound his joy, Tom is also informed by Mrs Miller that, after speaking with her son, she has told Sophia all about the Bellaston letter and that Tom had also refused a proposal of marriage from a pretty widow called Hunt ( which occurs earlier in the novel ).

Barnum afterwards told the story that Jumbo died saving a young circus elephant, Tom Thumb, from being hit by the locomotive, but other witnesses did not support this.

Bruton vehemently denied this and Fine Gael counsel told the Planning Tribunal in 2003: " I refute entirely Mr Dunlop's contention that he advised me then of the alleged demand made to him by the late Tom Hand ".

At least five years ago, Tom Robinson of Marlin made up an over/under double rifle for me in this caliber, using the now defunct Model 90 action in 20-gauge size.

Edwards was extremely complimentary of Waits ' contributions, saying: Tom Waits is the one who got me my contract with PolyGram.

Tom would later say " Four Star ( the production company ) gave me ulcers.

: It seems to me – I can tell by your letter – that you are a courageous and honest girl, resembling Becky, the friend of Tom Sawyer in the famous book of your compatriot Mark Twain.

In a May, 2011 interview, Tom Ellard explained: " Some people thought it was a bit rude of me to just shut it down without a proper farewell tour and so we decided we would drag it out just one more time and say our toodly-doodly ’ s.

According to a 2004 interview, Everly, who was then an MTV talent executive, initially said no to dating Hoppus: " Tom always used to embarrass me.

In general the witness will make a statement such as, " Sally told me Tom was in town ," as opposed to " I saw Tom in town ," which is direct evidence.

When Presley's manager, Tom Parker heard that the theatre was offering Presley 28, 000 dollars, he reportedly said " That's fine for me, now how much can you get for Elvis?

The same story pattern appears in numerous other cultures: Tom Tit Tot in England ( from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs ), Whuppity Stoorie in Scotland ( from Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland ), Gilitrutt in Iceland, Joaidane جعيدان in Arabic ( he who talks too much ), Khlamushka Хламушка ( junker ) in Russia, Rampelnik in Czech Republic, Martinko Klingáč in Slovakia, Ruidoquedito ( meaning " little noise ") in South America, Pancimanci in Hungary ( from A Csodafurulya by Kolozsvari Grandpierre Emil ), Cvilidreta ( whine-screamer ) in Croatia, Tremotino in Italy, Ootz-li Gootz-li עו ּ ץ-לי גו ּ ץ-לי in Israel ( a compact and rhymy touch to the original sentence and meaning of the story, " He advised me and then turned me into a joke "), Daiku to Oniroku ( daiku means " a carpenter ", to means " and ", and Oniroku is an ogre's name ), or " 大工と鬼六 " in Japan.

" Senator Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader of the time, commented that the decision " smells of intimidation to me.

Prior to Richard Nixon's announcement of his candidacy, Pat's brother Tom Ryan said, " Pat told me that if Dick ran for governor she was going to take her shoe to him.

Watts elected not to join the group because of its closely Democratic affiliation and goals, saying "... they said that I had sold out and me an Uncle Tom.

: Shall win my mad Tom from me

* A line in the Tom Waits song " Shiver Me Timbers " from the album The Heart of Saturday Night runs " I know Martin Eden's gonna be a-proud of me ".

And me and Tom have families now, too.

In a 2009 interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron said, " We talked about how Martian-like character Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave, and then one day called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.

Satirist Tom Lehrer has acknowledged the Trio's pioneering of college concerts, observing that before the Kingstons " there was no real concert circuit ... The Kingston Trio started all that ," and in Time magazine, critic Richard Corliss asserted, " In my youth, they changed pop music, and me with it.

If me and Tom are in that picture we're in the car going " Oh she's alright, I wish I had a guitar on my back with her.

" But one of the questions he asked was, ‘ What are you interested in that you think we might also be interested in ?’, and I said, ‘ Another Oz story .’ … And Tom sort of straightened up in his chair because it turned out, unbeknownst to me, that Disney owned the rights to all of the Oz stories.

In a press release, Jackson stated, " I am pleased with recent developments involving Neverland Ranch and I am in discussions with Colony and Tom Barrack with regard to the Ranch and other matters that would allow me to focus on the future.

There are two things here about Surviving in the Wilderness, and a book called ' Tom Swift and His Speedy Canoe ' ; ;

* Blind author Tom Sullivan has written several inspirational books, including If You Could See What I Hear, about his life and accomplishments.

Tom and Ray are known for their self-deprecating humor, often joking about the supposedly poor quality of their advice.

* Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer's 1953 song " Lobachevsky " was based on a number that Kaye had done, about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, again with the affected Russian accent.

After the funeral, Charles and Tom have a discussion about whether hoping to find your " one true love " is just a futile effort, and ponder that, while their clique have always viewed themselves as proud-to-be-single, Gareth and Matthew had in fact been a " married " couple among them all the while.

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, published about 1749, describes a visit to Hamlet by Tom Jones and Mr Partridge, with similarities to the " play within a play ".

" Post-left anarchist Bob Black in his long critique of Bookchin's philosophy called Anarchy after leftism said about post-left anarchy that " It is, unlike Bookchinism, “ individualistic ” in the sense that if the freedom and happiness of the individual — i. e., each and every really existing person, every Tom, Dick and Murray — is not the measure of the good society, what is?

British playwright Tom Stoppard wrote Every Good Boy Deserves Favour about the relationship between a patient and his doctor in one of these hospitals.

* Marine ( book ), a book about the United States Marine Corps written by Tom Clancy in 1996

American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, who met Hurt and played on the same bill as him at the Gaslight in Greenwich Village around 1963, wrote and recorded a song about him in 1977 entitled " Did You Hear John Hurt?

The Pranksters helped popularize LSD use through their road trips across America in a psychedelically-decorated school bus, which involved distributing the drug and meeting with major figures of the beat movement, and through publications about their activities such as Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ( 1968 ).

In the Voyager episode, " Non Sequitur ," Tom Paris ' alternate self ( in the parallel dimension ) relates to Harry Kim a story about how, during a stop at Deep Space Nine, he got in a bar fight with a Ferengi and was thrown in the brig by " a very unpleasant shapeshifter ", obviously referring to Odo.

* The song is performed on an episode of the US sitcom Newhart, leading the dim-witted character of George Utley ( Tom Poston ) to say, " I never realized what that song was really about!

Hiding in the cellar of the farmhouse are white married couple Harry ( Karl Hardman ) and Helen Cooper ( Marilyn Eastman ) and their daughter Karen ( Kyra Schon ), who sought refuge after a group of zombies turned over their car ; and white teenage couple Tom ( Keith Wayne ) and Judy ( Judith Ridley ) who arrived after hearing an emergency broadcast about a series of brutal murders.

He was also portrayed by actor Tom Berenger in 1997 for the TNT movie Rough Riders, a made-for-cable film about his exploits during the Spanish – American War in Cuba.

In the aftermath of the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks, Tom Clancy commented on CNN about the very close similarity between the events in the novel and those attacks.

Tom Petty said about the Wilburys touring:

Tom Wolfe wrote about the magazine: " The New Yorker style was one of leisurely meandering understatement, droll when in the humorous mode, tautological and litotical when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine ’ s pale-gray pages became High Baroque triumphs of the relative clause and appository modifier ".

His role model is Tom Watson, then IBM chairman, who said in 1958: ' I think there is a world market for about five computers.

" After the listener predictably reacts by explaining that they did not know a Tom Collins, the speaker would assert that Tom Collins was talking about the listener to others and that Tom Collins was " just around the corner ", " in a bar ," or somewhere else near.