Erma Bombeck Quotes

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Erma Bombeck

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• When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Hair
  • Body
  • Teenager

• If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Popular

• You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Mind
  • Sex
  • Made

• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  

  Bette Midler
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• The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fool

• The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Power
  • Enough
  • Lying

• I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Women
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• Those who follow are always behind.

  

  A. Y. Jackson
  • Behinds

• I'm a big Letterman fan.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Fans
  • Bigs
  • Letterman

• Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Bigs
  • Speed
  • Slabs

• I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • English
  • Mood

• I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
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• Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Memories
  • Computer
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• I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Money
  • Fans
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• But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

  

  Chris Kyle
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  • Bigs
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• If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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• Maybe you think, ‘I’m not college material.’ Maybe you worry that you don’t have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Money
  • Think
  • College

• In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Dream
  • Kind

• I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Know

• Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Worth
  • Useful
  • Not Everything

• Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Character
  • Exercise
  • Interviews

• On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Scars
  • Medals

• I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Bigs
  • Behinds
  • Sat