21 Tom Bodett Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tom Bodett

American Author

Born: Feb 23, 1955

Adult Alaska Man People Think You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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

Life You School Lesson Given Test Taught Then Teaches

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. Tom Bodett

Pessimist Laugh Laughs Between Optimist Forget Forgets Difference

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that. Tom Bodett

Truth You Man Long Young Live Satisfied Other John Never Journal Wrote Because Go His Lot Any Any Other Place Famous Place Young Man Should Naturalist Alaska

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose. Tom Bodett

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising. Tom Bodett

There's a lot of people around Alaska now who are actually running the place who claim to just have gone there for the summer once 30 years ago. And that seems to be what happens. Tom Bodett

People Gone Summer Once Claim Running Seems Around Years Years Ago Lot Just Happens Place Who Now Actually Alaska

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that. Tom Bodett

You Travel People Think Staying Something Data Fact Taken Support Advantage Feel Nobody Smarter Talked Motel Vulnerable Makes In Fact Want Wants Means Hard Actually

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think. Tom Bodett

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. Tom Bodett

Guy Only Voice Impersonator First-Person Got His Essays

I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about. Tom Bodett

Saying Travel Believe Type Say Stay About Through Motel Operation Real Commercials Them Radio They Say

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers. Tom Bodett

Mine Tell Struggling Writers Story

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. Tom Bodett

Think Pretension Generally Am Self-Sufficient Very American Just Averse

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults. Tom Bodett

Age Adult Turn Actual

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