Erma Bombeck Quotes

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Erma Bombeck

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• Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Doing
  • Recovery

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Film

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Grace can and does have a history.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • History
  • Grace
  • Does

• If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • She
  • Want
  • Ideas

• If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Know
  • Rap

• Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wish
  • Gods
  • Answer

• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I do not need.

  

  Auguste Rodin

• Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Negative

• Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • May
  • Job

• I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

  

  David Hockney
  • Style

• There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • World
  • Day
  • Camera

• Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Kids