Andy Rooney Quotes

• Death is a distant rumor to the young.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Rumor, Distant, Young

• As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Secrets, Reporter

• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Golf, Grass

• All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Law, Men

• A writer’s job is to tell the truth.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Job, Truth

  Tags in Writer

• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pet

• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Technology

• Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

  Tags in More

• I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Time, Like, Food

• Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Computer

• 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Computer

Andy Rooney (51)

Birth:	14th January, 1919
Death:	4th November, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Commentator, Journalist, Writer

About

Andy Rooney  was an American radio and television writer. He 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 October 2, 2011. Rooney began his career in newspapers while in the Army when, in 1942, he began writing for Stars and Stripes in London during World War II. Later, he was one of the first American journalists to visit the Nazi concentration camps near the end of World War II, and one of the first to write about them. For his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal.

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