What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLINI still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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