Erma Bombeck Quotes
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.Erma Bombeck
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
Karin Slaughter -
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty -
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
Idina Menzel -
I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
Pat Nixon -
The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
Gary Weiss -
At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
Kate Winslet -
I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
Yani Tseng -
Intentions count in your actions.
Abu Bakr
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I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.
J. R. Celski -
Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.
Danny Meyer -
I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
Neil Innes -
As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.
Kristin Chenoweth -
You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
Jacqueline Bisset -
I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.
Jamie Bell
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To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
Mary Astell -
People are identifying not only with the trans movement, but also the Pfefferman family. What I am noticing is people are coming up on the street and talking about their life and their family, and they say, 'Your family is just like mine.'
Jeffrey Tambor -
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras -
So would I, if I were Parmenion.
Alexander the Great -
I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
David Almond -
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.
Erma Bombeck