Lily Tomlin Quotes
"We're all in this alone."
- Lily Tomlin
"It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Belief, Deep, Language)
"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."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Survival)
"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Books)
"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?"
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Hair)
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Love, Question)
"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Deep, Language, Man)
"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Now)
"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Thought, May, Thinking, Worry)
"I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Deep, Language)
"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Cause, Leading, Reality, Stress)
"I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."
- Lily Tomlin
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Now)
"For fast-acting relief try slowing down."
- Lily Tomlin
"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Opportunity, Failure, Wishes)
"If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less."
- Lily Tomlin
"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Culture, Skin)
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Home)
"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Americans, Country, Publicity)
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Care, Company)
"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."
- Lily Tomlin
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Race, Trouble)
"The road to success is always under construction."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Success, Road)
"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Winning, Race)
"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Success, Being, World, Worry)
"Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Imagination)
"Remember we're all in this alone."
- Lily Tomlin
"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Nothing, Reality)
"The best mind-altering drug is the truth."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Truth, Mind)
"We are all in this together, by ourselves."
- Lily Tomlin
"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."
- Lily Tomlin
"What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring."
- Lily Tomlin
"What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch."
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Reality)
"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: Feet, Name)
"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
- Lily Tomlin
(Related: God, Talk)