Top 59 Smothers Quotes
#1. Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket.
Nicole McKay
#2. Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
Lawrence Lessig
#3. Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just ... I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?
Markus Zusak
#4. Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.
Bryant McGill
#5. There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason
Mike Corbett
#6. He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
Christopher Pike
#7. Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.
Rafik Schami
#8. I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
Pat Paulsen
#9. Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.
Don Novello
#10. The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.
Oscar W. Firkins
#11. I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
Pat Paulsen
#12. So it - we have one enduring, uh, idea that will always live on with the Smothers Brothers, that 'Mom always liked you best.' We're the universal, uh, feeling that every child, every sibling has had somewhere along the line. Or, 'Who did she like best?' And that became kind of a little mantra.
Tom Smothers
#13. Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
Franz Kafka
#15. I've often heard people say, "Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise." When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#17. Support cripples ability, pity smothers courage,
But criticism glistens rusted brilliancy.
Akshmala Sharma
#18. The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
Rabih Alameddine
#19. Fern's never had very good luck with animals. She smothers them with affection and care and they thank her by croaking. Fern hasn't figured out how to play hard to get.
Amy Harmon
#20. It is the simple, dreary day, with its commonplace duties and people that smothers the burning heart--unless we have learned the secret of abiding in Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
#21. Absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#22. If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#23. The blackness that smothers me is total, and in the moment before everything falls away, I know what it feels like to be dead.
Michelle Zink
#24. The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
Joseph Goebbels
#25. I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
#26. Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Diane Ackerman
#27. Once in a thousand years the sea/ smothers the moon at my window/ opens a gate in my heart:
Jo Graham
#28. David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
Dave Foley
#29. Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.
Stasi Eldredge
#30. I know that you're sad right now. Grieve, but don't hold onto it. Grief smothers out life. Let it go. Remember me and be happy. You have an incredible life ahead of you. Make the most of every minute. Starting right now.
Kim Holden
#31. It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
Gautama Buddha
#32. Ultimately, too much dependency on a person can kill love. Relationships based on emotional insecurity and need, rather than on love, can become self-destructive. They don't work. Too much need drives people away and smothers love. It scares people away.
Melody Beattie
#33. Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Frances Osborne
#34. Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Walter Scott
#35. Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of "leap and the net will appear." Faith is your best buddy when you're scared shitless.
Jen Sincero
#37. Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
Dick Smothers
#38. Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!
Tommy Smothers
#39. Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.
Tom Smothers
#40. You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.
Tommy Smothers
#41. You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.
Tommy Smothers
#43. There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is ... what you get other people to believe.
Tommy Smothers
#44. We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
Tom Smothers
#45. When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
Tommy Smothers
#46. No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.
Tom Smothers
#47. Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.
Tom Smothers
#48. It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
Dick Smothers
#49. We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
Dick Smothers
#50. They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.
Tom Smothers
#51. We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of a comedian is first to entertain. And if you're so inclined, and you have some bigger thought, make sure you express it, because that's a gift.
Tom Smothers
#52. I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!
Tommy Smothers
#53. Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.
Dick Smothers
#54. I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.
Tom Smothers
#55. The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers
#56. Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
Tommy Smothers
#57. If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.
Tom Smothers
#58. It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
Tom Smothers
#59. I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.
Tom Smothers
