Erma Bombeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love my work but do not know how I write it.
-
L.A. makes you feel ugly.
-
I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
-
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
-
I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
-
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
-
'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
-
It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
-
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
-
To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
-
I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
-
I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
-
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
-
My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.
-
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
-
'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'
-
Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.
-
I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.
-
That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.
-
Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.
-
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
-
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
-
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
