Erma Bombeck Quotes

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
  • Favourite
  • Fabulous

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Song
  • Day

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Man
  • Interests

• Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Pain
  • Dying
  • Flying

• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Up
  • Job

• General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Character

• I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Guy
  • Wedding

• It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive.

  

  Freya Tingley
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Failure

• Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

  

  Freya Tingley
  • Up

• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Work

• I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

  

  David Mamet
  • May
  • Bad

• My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

  

  Lois Greenfield
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Photography

• In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • People
  • Movie
  • Worry

• The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Career
  • Boxes
  • Just Because

• Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Passion
  • Painting
  • Voice

• Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Worry