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
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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.
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.