Andy Rooney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a tomboy.
-
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
-
I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
-
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
-
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
-
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
-
I keep in touch with what's real.
-
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
-
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
-
The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
-
Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
-
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
-
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
-
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
-
Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
-
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
-
Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
-
In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
-
If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.
-
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
