Lily Tomlin Quotes - Page 3

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

If you can't be direct, why be?

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.

The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I would set time aside each day to do awe-robics. Because at the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

Remember we're all in this alone.

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.