I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
LILY TOMLINThere will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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The road to success is always under construction.
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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