Andy Rooney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East
-
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James
-
When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
Sally Mann
-
I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
Vincent Cassel
-
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
-
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
Kari Matchett
-
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood
-
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
-
I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
Gary Paulsen
-
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
Gautam Singhania
-
I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
Patrick Carman
-
I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
Yuri Milner
-
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
G. Edward Griffin
-
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke
-
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Nadine Gordimer
-
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady
-
Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
Laura Dern
-
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
-
Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.
Curtis Granderson
-
When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.
Katherine Ryan
-
Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.
Artie Lange
-
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
Fidel Castro
-
Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.
Don Nickles
-
I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
Andy Rooney