Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Albany
New York
Andrew Aitken Andy Rooney
Andrew Aitken Rooney
Giving
Purpose
Even
Making
Things
Sense
Place
Duplicate
America
Copies
Wanted
Computer
Firsts
Technology
First
Literature

More quotes by Andy Rooney

Image
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
Andy Rooney
Image
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney
Image
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
Andy Rooney
Image
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, Married! and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
Andy Rooney
Image
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
Andy Rooney
Image
Walking is good for the soul.
Andy Rooney
Image
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
Image
I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.
Andy Rooney
Image
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
Andy Rooney
Image
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
Andy Rooney
Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
Andy Rooney
Image
I like animals who trust people.
Andy Rooney
Image
Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
Andy Rooney
Image
Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.
Andy Rooney
Image
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
Andy Rooney
Image
It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
Andy Rooney
Image
Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
Andy Rooney
Image
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
Andy Rooney
Image
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
Andy Rooney