Lily Tomlin Quotes

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

What goes up must come down.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

A tree falls the way it leans.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!

In the league, anything can happen. Once one team gets momentum, things can change really fast.

In football, everything can change.

Things can change very fast in football.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.