Tomlin Quotes & Sayings

We're all in this together alone. — Lily Tomlin

I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means. — Lily Tomlin

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. — Lily Tomlin

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor." — Lily Tomlin

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. — Lily Tomlin

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul. — Chris Tomlin

Jesus Messiah, name above all names, blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, the rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all. — Chris 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

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining. — Lily Tomlin

I absolutely love everything about Christmas music. — Chris Tomlin

Infinity is just time on an ego trip. — Lily Tomlin

You don't really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice. Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very, very happy about it. — Lily Tomlin

The worship leader God is after is the one whose heart is captured by Him. — Chris Tomlin

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe. — Lily Tomlin

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business. — Eliza Coupe

Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus. — Chris Tomlin

I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past. — Mike Tomlin

Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God,Our God. — Chris Tomlin

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol. — Lily Tomlin

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. — Lily Tomlin

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. — Lily Tomlin

Just as we build a house or a cathedral with the same kind of stone, so we may use the same common and homely metaphors and images to convey truths on widely separated planes of discourse. ...And the highest is often best conveyed in terms of the lowest... In exploring the highest reaches of experience, we need a language as fresh and living as the truths with which we are in contact. For most mystics, this is the language of nerve tips.

E.W.F. Tomlin on Simone Weil's use of language. — E.W.F. Tomlin

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes. — Mike Tomlin

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth. — Lily Tomlin

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis! — Lily Tomlin

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

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody. — Lily Tomlin

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch. — Lily Tomlin

I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these things I remember, You are faithful, God, forever. — Chris Tomlin

Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure. — Chris Tomlin

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

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

Worship: Where God isn't moved by the quality of our voice but by the condition of our hearts. — Chris Tomlin

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

Grandma Mary would say, "That's why so many young women are marrying so many older men, because there aren't any more being raised. She would rather be an older man's sweetheart than a young man's fool and slave. — Lyanta' J. Tomlin

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin. — Tracey Ullman

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. — Lily Tomlin

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

Nobody is here without a reason ... I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always
wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it. — Lily Tomlin

Thank God kids never mean well — Lily Tomlin

It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today. — Lily Tomlin

I think that deep inside, all of humanity knows there's truth here, whether they want to admit it or not. There's a joy that comes in Christmas. There's a season of giving, so people feel this generosity. — Chris Tomlin

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other. — Lily Tomlin

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest? — Lily Tomlin

I'll tolerate you until I can replace you. — Mike Tomlin

Remember we're all in this alone. — Lily Tomlin

There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it. — Lily Tomlin

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry. — Lily Tomlin

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then
we elected them. — Lily Tomlin

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. — Lily Tomlin

I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever. — Chris Tomlin

Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin

Just remember, we're all in this alone. — Lily Tomlin

I'm such a fan of Lily's Tomlin, for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian. — Tina Fey

I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles. — Jenny Slate

If you can't be direct, why be? — Lily Tomlin

After all, in private, we're all misfits — Lily Tomlin

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. — Lily Tomlin

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types. — Lily Tomlin

We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles. — Lily Tomlin

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. — Lily Tomlin

Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory. — Lily Tomlin

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. — Lily Tomlin

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? — Lily Tomlin

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

God, Jack, it makes you want to go out and convert the whole damn world to homosexuality," she told him. "Just so you can walk down the street with your head up. "Maybe — Lily Tomlin Ann Bannon

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers. — Lily Tomlin

I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas. — Lily Tomlin

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious. — Lily Tomlin

The band and I were leading at a Youth Specialties convention. We were asked to back up Matt Maher for one of the sessions. Matt handed us the chord charts and, with less than 5 minutes of practice, we were playing it live. I fell in love with this song immediately. You can't hear the message of God's sufficient grace too many times. Matt is a great lead worshiper and is a part of Life Teen, a growing worship movement in the Catholic Church. — Chris Tomlin

The Standard ... is the standard. — Mike Tomlin

I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that. — Lily Tomlin

We kind of knew what they were doing. They brought pressure on the side with (Troy) Polamalu. The
way that they played the coverage was a little unique. Again, I've just got to do a better job than that. — Mike Tomlin

I am Loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing! — Chris Tomlin

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer. — Lily Tomlin

Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things. — Lily Tomlin

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. — Lily Tomlin

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it. — Lily Tomlin

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up? — Lily Tomlin

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. — Lily Tomlin

Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year. — Mike Tomlin

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use. — Lily Tomlin

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it. — Jenny Slate

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done? — Lily Tomlin

The best mind altering drug is the truth. — Lily Tomlin

Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world. — Lily Tomlin

People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done. — Mike Tomlin

Books like a box of chocolates; each one sweet and unique! — Pamela Tomlin

My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace! — Chris Tomlin

Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up. — Lily Tomlin

I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today. — Mike Tomlin

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer. — Lily Tomlin

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. — Lily Tomlin

I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight. — Lily Tomlin

If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid. — Tina Fey

The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture. — Lily Tomlin

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

I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific. — Lily Tomlin

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

You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening ... — Lily Tomlin