Lily Tomlin Thinking Quotations

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

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

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

You are what you think ... geez, that’s frightening....

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.

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

My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.