Andy Rooney Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  Teacher, People, Literature

  "A profession brought back to life" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2005.

• I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

  Andy Rooney

  Sarcastic, Food, Sarcasm

  "Eating Out With Andy Rooney; With Every Course, an Opinion" by Bryan Miller, www.nytimes.com. October 04, 1989.

• Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Health, Vegetarianism, Safety

• Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

  Andy Rooney

  News, Literature, Fine

• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  Andy Rooney

  Hands, Doe, Literature

  Commencement speech by Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, today.uri.edu. May 24, 2006.

• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  Andy Rooney

  Music, Careers, Air

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.264, Random House

• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  Andy Rooney

  Confidence, Blessed, Doors

• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  Andy Rooney

  Respect, Government, Perfect

• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Thinking, Boys

• Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

  Andy Rooney

  Garbage, Waste, Literature

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.13, Random House

• All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

  Andy Rooney

  Men, Law, Literature

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.262, Hachette UK

• We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

  Andy Rooney

  Mistake, Giving, Feelings

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.261, PublicAffairs

• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, America, Firefighter

• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  Andy Rooney

  Funny, Golf, Watches

• I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

  Andy Rooney

  Iran, Wish, Literature

• Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Wish, Important

  "Rooney: Please Choose". www.cbsnews.com. October 29, 2004.

• As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Phones, Secret

• I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

  Andy Rooney

  Literature, Pick Me, Subjects

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