If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
LILY TOMLINIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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 always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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