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

• 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

• 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

• For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Work
  • Energy

• Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

  

  Claire Cameron
  • People
  • Good

• I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Kids
  • Teenager

• As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Knowledge
  • Present
  • Sadness

• I like vintage stores - all over the world. I have a little collection of my favorite stores here and there. Other than that, I love online shopping.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • World
  • Shopping

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

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • World
  • Looks
  • Miserable