Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLINWe don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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 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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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