Erma Bombeck Quotes

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Erma Bombeck

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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
  • Matter
  • Horizon

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gold

• We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Love
  • Mother

• I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Me
  • New

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Family
  • Responsibility
  • Years

• I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Important
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I like throwing snowballs at small children.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Children
  • Small
  • Like

• I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Famous
  • Fake
  • Now

• The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• With just enough of learning to misquote.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Learning

• The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • Strong

• To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Human Beings

• Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • People
  • Remember

• I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • Up
  • Girl

• Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.

  

  Tyler Hamilton
  • Lies

• I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Mean
  • Hair
  • Sick

• Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

  

  John Backus
  • Writing
  • Computer
  • Lazy

• My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

  

  Petra Stunt
  • Parents
  • Brought
  • Housework

• There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Feel
  • Theater
  • Favorite

• Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Lazy
  • Housework