10 Lily Tomlin Quotes on Society

Lily Tomlin quotes on society

3. There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

23. If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

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

27. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

28. Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?

44. Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

49. I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me... In some ways I don't even identify myself in any kind of limited way. I don't want to. I wish none of us had to. I wish we were just people.

50. I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

51. 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.

59. The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year, everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.