I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLINWe are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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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.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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