Andy Rooney Quotes
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
Quotes to Explore
-
Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
-
Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
-
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
-
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
-
I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
-
On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
-
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
-
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
-
I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
-
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
-
It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
-
I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
-
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
-
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
-
I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
-
A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
-
I like to bring my audience on a journey during my 90 minute concert. I will tell stories every few songs about the creation of a tune etc. and it gives the listener a glimpse inside my songs and then as you get to the last half hour you pick up the pace and work harder and get more into the show. It's all about stagecraft.
-
We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
-
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
-
There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.
-
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
