Erma Bombeck Quotes

Success is outliving your failures

Erma Bombeck

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• To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Amazing
  • New

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Live
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Own

• In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Google

• The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Important
  • Game
  • Day

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cutting

• I'm a pro-horserace guy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Guy

• It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tennis

• Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Love
  • Free
  • Filmmaking

• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Know
  • Respect

• Non combattete mai con la religione, né con le cose che pare che dependono da Dio; perché questo obietto ha troppa forza nella mente degli sciocchi.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini

• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  

  Dogen
  • Practice
  • Enlightenment
  • Fences

• I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Value
  • Management
  • Accountability

• Success is outliving your failures

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Success
  • Failures