Lily
Unsourced variant: No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
As Lily
Unsourced variant: No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
Steve Kluger (1952) American writer
Source: My Most Excellent Year
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 392
“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”
Robert A. Heinlein book I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 27, p. 473
“You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 356
Clive Staples Lewis book A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose that you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? … Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
“Bobby, it don't matter how you stand; it matter where you end up!”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Circa 1956 or 1957, regarding his failure to find one consistent batting stance; as quoted by Pirate reliever Art Swanson in Remember Roberto: Clemente Recalled by Teammates, Family, Friends and Fans (1994) by Jim O'Brien, p. 348
Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
"Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York (549)" (14 December 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1962 --> <br class="br">1962, Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York (549)
