Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLINWhy isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLINIn the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
LILY TOMLINLanguage was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
LILY TOMLINSometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
LILY TOMLINYou 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.
LILY TOMLINI still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
LILY TOMLINBeing a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLINI wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
LILY TOMLINAfter all, in private, we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLINIf I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
LILY TOMLINThe larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
LILY TOMLINIf 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.
LILY TOMLINI was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
LILY TOMLINI can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
LILY TOMLINWhy is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
LILY TOMLINI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN