Andy Rooney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
-
To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
-
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
-
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
-
I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
-
More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
-
One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
-
Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
-
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
-
I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
-
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
-
It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
-
It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
-
If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
-
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
-
The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
-
I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
-
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
-
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
-
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
