If 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.
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More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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