When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
LILY TOMLINWhen we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
LILY TOMLINWhen I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
LILY TOMLINI like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
LILY TOMLINI worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
LILY TOMLINWhy isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLINThere’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLINI can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
LILY TOMLINIf evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
LILY TOMLINI always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
LILY TOMLINWell, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
LILY TOMLINPeople hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
LILY TOMLINInstead 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 TOMLINIt’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
LILY TOMLINIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
LILY TOMLINYou know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
LILY TOMLINI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN