Erma Bombeck Quotes

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

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• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Me

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • Travel
  • Made

• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Today
  • Gay
  • Economics

• Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Monster

• With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Action

• Animals interest me more than anything else.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

  

  Mary Martin
  • Work
  • Words
  • Communication

• Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

  

  Alice Eve
  • School
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi

• There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Popular

• What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Nature

• I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Help
  • Alone

• But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Property
  • Legal
  • Primitive

• To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.

  

  John R. Allen
  • World
  • Peace

• We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • World
  • Today
  • Moon

• The opportunity to build new and surprising partnerships to help Microsoft succeed in a mobile-first, cloud-first world is truly exciting, and I look forward to leading these efforts.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • World
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • World
  • Looks
  • Miserable