No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. Lily Tomlin More Quotes by Lily Tomlin More Quotes From Lily Tomlin 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. Lily Tomlin realreligiousfeelings You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all. Lily Tomlin serendipityfunnyinteresting And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move ahead in technology, how much do we move ahead in morality or emotion? We move ahead so minimally, minimally, minimally. Lily Tomlin technologylongmoving The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them. Lily Tomlin elephantszoosideas It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today. Lily Tomlin today When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia. Lily Tomlin schizophreniaprayer We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor. Lily Tomlin jobsgivingpeople If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up? Lily Tomlin meaninglessifslife-is When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis! Lily Tomlin psychosisspeakprayer 9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer. Lily Tomlin equal-paymadepeople I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works. Lily Tomlin reason I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. Lily Tomlin cameraslittlesmean Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers. Lily Tomlin differencesintegritypast No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up. Lily Tomlin cynicali-canmatter 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. Lily Tomlin crazyuniquethinking 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. Lily Tomlin heartsongsweet In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone Lily Tomlin solitudeheartnight You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way. Lily Tomlin confusedstepsway I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that. Lily Tomlin therapyfun Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest? Lily Tomlin formintelligentmissing
