Tom Bodett Quotes

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1955

Topics

LifeSchoolYouLessonTestTaught

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Jidenna

PurposeStrongThinkArtistKnowUs

The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.

Joan Collins

CarSunCareTake CareYouBody

My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when I'm rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit!

Jessica Seinfeld

SchoolFreeColorPerfectSneakers

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Melody Beattie

BehaviorPersonHimAffectHerWho

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

Anderson East

LifeSchoolMy LifeBandMiddle

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

John Oates

SpringCollegeGuitarEuropeGone

It's a nice release when you make a perfect tackle, a good hit.

John Matuszak

GoodYouPerfectNiceReleaseMake

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

Robert Gottlieb

LifeWomenWomanDeathFateHobby

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

Matt Ross

WorkMeI CanSoundSingIncredible

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

John Slattery

HopeMoneyPeopleYouGoSee

I have a big family of big people.

Sterling K. Brown

FamilyPeopleBigBig Family

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it's had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.

Ronnie Corbett

LifeFearBalanceMeWorldGolf

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