Andy Rooney Quotes

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Andy Rooney

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• Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Rest

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Hate
  • Call

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Funny
  • More

• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
  • Angry
  • Perception

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Problem
  • Cost
  • Save

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Confidence

• Every person who reads your book will be far more likely to be on your side. Books are the most intensive of all current media. People are willing to spend hours and hours with a book.

  

  Hank Green
  • Person
  • Books
  • Media

• For many people in the music conservatory world, the message was always, Focus! 'You can't do everything; you really need to specialize.' And especially at an early age, I ignored this advice.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Age
  • Painting

• This announcement is very bad news, but the timing of action by the international community remains that agreed by the UN Security Council.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Announcement
  • Security Council
  • International Community

• I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Age
  • Purpose
  • Lucky