Tom Snyder Quotes

#1. If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I'm more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on 'SNL.' I did it in the club.

Joe Piscopo

#2. Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.

Tom Shales

#3. People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

Tom Snyder

#4. Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

Eben Pagan

#5. By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.

Tom Standage

#6. The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Nancy E. Turner

#7. HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

Tom Snyder

#8. If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

Winston Churchill

#9. If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Tom Snyder

#10. When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.

Mary Szybist

#11. I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

Tom Snyder

#12. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.

Charles Dickens

#13. Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.

Geoffrey Batchen