Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney
Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooneywas an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired on October 2, 2011. He died one month later, on November 4, 2011, at age 92...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 January 1919
CityAlbany, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!
One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.
When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.
When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.