Erma Bombeck Quotes

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck

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  Tanya Tucker
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• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
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• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
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• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
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• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
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• As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

  

  Jack Osbourne
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• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
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• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Year

• Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Ugly

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Very
  • Fortunate
  • Were

• My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Father
  • Military

• Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Good
  • Words
  • Dog

• Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Treasure

• How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Why
  • She
  • Decision

• I just love math and most people don't.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Love
  • Math

• As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Character
  • Respect

• The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Words
  • Joy
  • Gratitude

• A shady business never yields a sunny life.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Business
  • Shady

• I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Learn
  • Advice
  • Mistakes

• Yes.” She smiled, liking the word. “What I feel like right now—I’d compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It’s a beautiful place, but it also has darkness. If you try to eradicate that darkness, you also destroy the light.” Pain for the future of her people tightened her heart.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • inspirational