Andy Rooney Quotes
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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
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I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
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I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.
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I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.
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People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
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Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
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We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
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I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
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Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
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Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
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I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.
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Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.
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Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.
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I wish people who sell things would stop trying to guess how many of something we want to buy. I want to buy things one at a time.
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Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
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I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.