Andy Rooney Quotes

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

Andy Rooney

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Management

• Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Success
  • Learn

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • City
  • Myself

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Security

• I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Women
  • Down

• I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Security

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Light

• I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Hand
  • Hands

• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • True

• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Mistake
  • Hero

• I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Chance

• No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Simple
  • Holocaust

• Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

  

  Alex Turner
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Character
  • Environment

• Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Experience
  • Waiting
  • Flying