Erma Bombeck Quotes

Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.

Erma Bombeck

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• Dog

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• William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Person
  • Most

• To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Body
  • Building
  • Hell

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Artists
  • Very

• I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Jazz
  • Ride

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Peace
  • Israel
  • Hatred

• There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Wonderful
  • London
  • Places

• Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Respect
  • Special

• Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law

• In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Laughter

• What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Running

• Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Earth

• I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Time
  • Family
  • Husband

• If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.

  

  Charlotte Lamb
  • Important
  • Women
  • Romantic

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

  

  Corazon Aquino
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• I've always been interested in making movies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Interested

• I was rather a fat little boy.

  

  Cyril Cusack
  • Boy

• The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Great
  • Long
  • May

• Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • Teacher
  • Dog