Motivational Andy Rooney Quotes:- Andy Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer.
Inspirational Andy Rooney Quotes
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney
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 of a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
Andy Rooney
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
I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.
Andy Rooney
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Andy Rooney
I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
Andy Rooney
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
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy Rooney
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Andy Rooney
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
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
Andy Rooney
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
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
Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Andy Rooney
I don’t pick subjects as much as they pick me.
Andy Rooney
Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
Andy Rooney
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
Andy Rooney
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don’t return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you.
Andy Rooney
I don’t think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney
Let’s make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We’ll pick a week next year and we’ll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
Andy Rooney
I’m in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it’s wrong that I get fired, well, I’ve got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney
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
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It’s sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn’t hurt.
Andy Rooney
The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy Rooney
It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy Rooney
My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
Andy Rooney
I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn’t realize they thought. And they say, ‘Hey, yeah!’ And they like that.
Andy Rooney
I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
Andy Rooney
