Erma Bombeck Quotes

I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

Erma Bombeck

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• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Serious
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • You
  • Moving
  • Philosophy

• You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • You
  • Serious
  • Witty

• We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Done
  • Know
  • Moments

• I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Serious
  • Just
  • Just Because

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Challenge

• The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Serious

• That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Great
  • Music
  • Hand

• He knows me, he knows the doctors here, and we are the best hospital in this part of the world. It's true, I am serious.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • World
  • True
  • Serious

• Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Serious
  • Sex

• The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • People
  • Reality
  • Moments

• I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

  

  Genevieve Bell
  • Interesting
  • Moments
  • Practical

• There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while.

  

  Debra Granik
  • American

• I grew up in a very Christian household. We went to church every Sunday whether I wanted to or not.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • Up
  • Church
  • Christian

• Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Movie
  • Learning
  • Figure Out

• There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.

  

  John Roberts
  • Up
  • Children
  • May

• I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Moments
  • Serious
  • Philosophy