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… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something… — Tom Bodett Copy Share
Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know? — Tom Bodett Copy Share
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… — Tom Bodett Copy Share
What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any.… — Tom Bodett Copy Share
My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that… — Tom Bodett Copy Share
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. — Tom Bodett Copy Share
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… — Tom Bodett Copy Share
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying? — Tom Bodett Copy Share
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to… — Tom Bodett Copy Share
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share
I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny. — Tom Bodett Copy Share
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need… — Tom Bodett Copy Share
I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it. — Tom Bodett Copy Share
