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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Me
  • Better

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brother

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Age

• During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Art
  • Book
  • Age

• Many times, I know before I speak to the player what they are thinking. It's very important to know when to push, when to put the pressure on, and when to take it off.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Player

• And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

  

  Jamie Zawinski
  • Time
  • Today

• There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Moments
  • Beginning
  • Said

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

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Age
  • Purpose
  • Lucky