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'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

• 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

• 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

• My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • Work
  • War
  • Practice

• I've always been a loner.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Loner

• The great children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes marks her 90th birthday by appearing as Michael Berkeley's guest in 'Private Passions'.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Great
  • Children
  • Author

• I don't really play a lot of games.

  

  Chris Jericho

• When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • Dark

• To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

  

  Plato
  • World
  • Soul

• If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

  

  Joe Green
  • School
  • High
  • Running

• I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

  

  Edward Gorey
  • Serious

• There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella

• The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Emotional
  • Cat
  • Honesty

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

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • World
  • Looks
  • Miserable