Tom Shales Quotes

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

Tom Shales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 3, 1948

Topics

ChoicesTelevisionLate-NightCereal

I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.

Joe Sacco

CafeOutHangThingsWhereRather

I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.

Jeremy Piven

FootballGameGuyWouldThrowVideo

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Jean Ingelow

GoodLightDayWaitingFlowersFace

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

John Vane

AttitudePathIdeasFindSometimes

'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.

Steve Erickson

DreamsYouthDrivingYouCompany

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

Alton Brown

HomePeopleMeFeelYouTable

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Miguel de Cervantes

DrinkSecretPromiseNorNeither

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Joni Mitchell

PoetryFindNarcissisticLot

First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

Denis Leary

LiveCarSnowTimeDrivingHorse

When my TV show was in production, dozens of women asked me out on Facebook. Some were shy about it; some were blatant. Some I knew, some were total strangers. But they went for it.

Chris Gethard

WomenMeStrangersShyOutFacebook

I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.

Chelsea Cain

GoodWomenI AmFlowersKnowMean

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

Wladimir Klitschko

LifeMy LifeRingNeverOutside

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