Erma Bombeck Quotes

When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.

Erma Bombeck

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• Cooking
• Guilty

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• I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Idea
  • Simply
  • No Idea

• My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Looks
  • Face
  • Bored

• I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sexy

• I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Live
  • Think
  • Start

• I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Always
  • Gift
  • Suspicious

• Putin is willing to poison bodies in the free world, not only minds. Why would he do this? Why would he call attention to his murderous ways now? Well, I’ll turn that around and ask instead, why wouldn’t he? Dictators don’t ask 'Why,' they ask 'Why not?'

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Why
  • Free

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Live
  • High
  • Learning

• England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have 'racist,' 'fascist,' 'homophobe,' 'ugly,' and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of 'dumb' would nearly cripple them.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Ugly
  • Dumb

• We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

  

  Constance Baker Motley

• I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Friends
  • Study

• In the hot summer months, popsicles are a perfect way to cool down while enjoying a delicious, fruity treat. Frozen, refreshing, mouth-friendly candy on a stick cannot get any better... or can it?

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Perfect
  • Cool
  • Summer

• I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Money
  • Teenager

• Find your passion. Because with that passion, you can do anything.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Passion

• Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

  

  Patty Judge
  • People
  • School
  • Culture

• Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Home
  • Lost
  • Integrity

• I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

  

  Neil Kinnock

• When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Up
  • Girl

• As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

  

  Marjane Satrapi

• When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Water
  • Cooking
  • Guilty