Erma Bombeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
-
I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
-
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
-
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
-
I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
-
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
-
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
-
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
-
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
-
Peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that reside in each of us; in other models, direct economic growth from the top down or relies solely on the resources extracted from the earth. But we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource - our people.
-
Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
-
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
-
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
-
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
-
We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads.
-
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
-
My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.
-
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
-
I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
-
I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
-
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
-
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
-
Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
