Tommy Smothers Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine.

Penn Jillette

#3. Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

Don Novello

#4. I'd taken it off and hurled it across the room, vowing never to touch it again. And I wouldn't have, if the damn thing hadn't gotten caught in my vacuum cleaner and destroyed it ... the vacuum cleaner, I mean. The ring was fine. Damn it.

Anonymous

#5. God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.

David Jeremiah

#6. We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

Georgina Chapman

#7. When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Tommy Smothers

#8. 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

#9. The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Tommy Smothers

#10. You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

Tommy Smothers

#11. 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

#12. Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

Randy Bachman

#13. Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!

Tommy Smothers

#14. 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

#15. I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!

Tommy Smothers

#16. I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God is good to us, we write in such a way that the act of reading becomes a pleasure to those who buy our books.

M.V. Carey

#17. The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Tommy Smothers

#18. Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

Tommy Smothers