No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
LILY TOMLINIf life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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 isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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