Erma Bombeck Quotes

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

Erma Bombeck

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• I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Clothes

• My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fun

• I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Arts
  • Useless
  • Committees

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Better

• If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Matter

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I was just amazed by it. I just said, 'Hey Mom, can I do this too?' And so she signed me up for little theater classes, and I remember my first audition for a play when I was seven years old was for 'The Thankful Elf.'

  

  Dana Davis
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Funny
  • Happens
  • Canada

• I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Best

• Relax, you're among friends now. The long hard day is over and the roly-poly funny man is before you.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I went from basically filming in my bedroom by myself, filming some funny videos, and then overnight, I switched into filming in some studios and some warehouses and family homes. I started filming with directors and producers and editors, and there were so many people in the room, so it was definitely weird.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • People
  • Family
  • Funny

• The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Why
  • Funny

• It seems like the real television networks, the amount of people that watch each network is going down and down, and the amount of people that watch each website is going up and up.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Money
  • Car
  • Chance

• As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Science
  • Senior
  • Science fiction

• A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Funny
  • Humorous
  • Committees