Andy Rooney Quotes
Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I'm a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it's always stayed with me.
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I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.
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Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
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Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.
