Lily Tomlin Quotes
-
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
-
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
-
If the formula for water is H
-
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework
-
Interviewer: You once said you had a drug problem... Lily: Yeah, I still do. It's so hard to find good grass these days.
-
Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
-
If you can't be direct, why be?
-
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.
-
When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.
-
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
-
I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
-
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.
-
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
-
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.