Andy Rooney Quotes

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

Andy Rooney

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• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Innocent
  • Too Much
  • Too

• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • You
  • Feeling

• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Strength

• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Personality
  • Human
  • Him

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • California

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Know
  • Food
  • Restaurant

• When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • True
  • Reality

• I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Past
  • Peace
  • Dad

• You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Women
  • Shoes

• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Moment
  • Memorable
  • Boston

• I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Me
  • Blessing
  • Evolution

• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Job
  • Health

• Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Rap

• Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

  

  James Mattis
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
  • Write
  • Sketch

• Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Earth

• In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Bad
  • Learning
  • Errors