Lily Tomlin Quotes

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

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• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Sometimes
  • Care
  • Laugh

• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • True

• Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Great
  • Business
  • High

• Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Family
  • Farm
  • Crop

• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Different
  • Space
  • Purpose

• Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Fear
  • Doing
  • Conquer

• I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Rebel

• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wisdom

• When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Important
  • Feels
  • Sense

• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• The reality is the world's shifted; the world's evolved. We now measure ourself by total device space. We have a much bigger opportunity than we've ever had in the past to grow our business, but we have to rethink how we look at our business.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Business
  • Reality

• There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Theater

• Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • Up
  • Great
  • Democracy

• To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside-to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Time
  • Soul

• There was a silence. Outside, and most unfortunately, a boy could be heard calling to another boy: ‘Piss off, Cowie.’ Stern looks were fixed on Woolton.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Boy
  • Silence

• I'll try to sing as fast as I can, I know you all can't wait to see U2.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It is clear to me that under the right conditions, future technologies will be created that we cannot even imagine.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Future

• My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

  

  Alan Colmes

• It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Women

• I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Respect

• Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Understanding
  • Developing
  • Songwriter

• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  

  Lily Tomlin