black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLIN

Fear Thinking Yourself
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
LILY TOMLIN

Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
LILY TOMLIN

Place Public Reality Time Yourself
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLIN

Name Top Yourself
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
LILY TOMLIN

Creation Expression Type Way
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
LILY TOMLIN

Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
LILY TOMLIN

Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
LILY TOMLIN

Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
LILY TOMLIN

Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLIN

Direct Yourself
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN

Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
LILY TOMLIN

Culture Expression Myself Social Type
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
LILY TOMLIN

Consumption Life Live People Style
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLIN

One Liner Privacy
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
LILY TOMLIN

Myself Thinking Worry

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Lily Tomlin Quotes