Tom Lehrer Quotes
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
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In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.
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Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.
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Don’t make your story too big. I don’t want you big-noting me.
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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
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The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
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People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself.
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Niggas know my pussy taste like mango-tango so they put a couple karats in my ankle bangles
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
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Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.
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You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
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You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.