"Everything we do is for some reason we think makes sense. "For the biggest part of the year, we're battling our friends and battling our enemies, we're competing with everyone in an effort to get ahead of them," he said. The man known for his often caustic take on American traditions was surprisingly soft on the holidays. "I've had Christmas presents I liked better than others, but I've never had a Christmas present I didn't like." I think of my complaint as a public service."īut at Christmas time, Rooney said, he's more like Gretzky. I make sure the waiter knows I'm not happy about it, and I figure the waiter will let the chef know. In the 1988 video above, he brought up hockey great Wayne Gretzky, who once said that if he orders his steak rare and it comes well-done, he eats it anyway. 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.By his own admission, Andy Rooney wasn't the type to stay quiet if something was not to his liking.
I decided we were right going into World War II.” – from a CBS interview with Morley Safer, Oct. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. “Dogs are nicer than people.” – from an essay on the true things in life, Dec. How much would it cost if you didn’t handle it before you sent it to me?” – from an essay on fine print, March 12, 1989 “I understand shipping – you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company – but what’s this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don’t want a lot of people handling something I’m going to buy before I get it. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you’ve taken a pill out?” – from an essay on pill bottles, Oct. “I don’t know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Andy Rooney, Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit tags: christmas, christmas-tree 18 likes Like The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. But why are they always trying to con us with the contrived pictures on the box that don’t look anything like you get when you eat it?” – from an essay on the pictures on food packages, Dec. The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. “A lot of these products are actually pretty good.
“The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.” – from an essay on coffee cans, Oct. “One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.” – from Rooney’s first “60 Minutes” essay, July 2, 1978
You don’t get any luckier in life than that.” – from Rooney’s final “60 Minutes” essay, Oct. … All this time I’ve been paid to say what is on my mind on television. Read more religious Christmas quotes that capture the spirit of the holiday. “Not many people in this world are as lucky as I’ve been. It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.” – on the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger after it exploded on takeoff in 1986 “We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that’s what they were. I lose that much getting mad, waiting to get on the plane through security at the airport.” – from an essay on computers, Feb. The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. Christmas is doing a little extra something for someone else.Charles M. 'Seeing isn’t believing believing is seeing.' Judy, 'Santa Claus 2'.
“I recently bought this new laptop to use when I travel. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
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