You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
LILY TOMLINThere’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
-
-
I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
LILY TOMLIN -
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
LILY TOMLIN -
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
LILY TOMLIN -
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
LILY TOMLIN -
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
LILY TOMLIN -
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
LILY TOMLIN -
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
LILY TOMLIN -
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN -
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLIN -
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
LILY TOMLIN -
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
LILY TOMLIN -
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 -
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 -
If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLIN -
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
LILY TOMLIN