Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLINDid you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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 bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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