Erma Bombeck Quotes

You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

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• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Amazing

• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dogs
  • Clean
  • Feed

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Chinese
  • Transformation

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
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  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Been
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  • Almost

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
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  • Feeling

• Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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  • Unknown

• I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
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  • Angry

• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Me
  • Angry
  • Pleasure

• You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Training
  • Win
  • Weeks

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nobody
  • Santa
  • Santa Claus

• My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Grandmother
  • Fairy
  • Hans Christian Andersen

• While I'm working on something, every single part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that place behind. I usually don't like to revisit it. So it's almost like listening to a different person.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
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• You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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