Andy Rooney Quotes

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Andy Rooney

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• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Care

• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lord

• I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Door

• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Different
  • Women
  • Gossip

• I like my dry-aged steaks.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Like

• Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Person
  • More
  • Deserve

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Feelings

• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Husbands

• I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Time
  • Giving

• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Democracy
  • Prince

• We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

  

  Charles Best
  • School
  • Business

• One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

  

  Kit Bond

• I go to museums all the time.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Time

• No one nor anything can silence me.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Silence

• It might be done I suppose before I leave but I think that a little unlikely.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Done
  • Thouths

• Becky Renee Apple - can you believe her mom named her that and then had all of her sweaters monogramed with 'BRA'?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Believe
  • Mom

• Michael Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Idea
  • Fiction
  • Literary

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Happiness

• I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Appreciated
  • I've Learned
  • Shells