Erma Bombeck Quotes

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

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• It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • History
  • Learn

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Now

• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Knowing
  • Finding

• In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Free

• I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Makeup

• I never quite toed the line.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Never
  • Line
  • Quite

• The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Tree

• I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Tea

• When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Kids
  • Simple

• The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Comedy

• Millennials don't go to rallies.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Albrecht Durer
  • World
  • May
  • Help

• It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

  

  Chris Milk
  • People
  • Weird

• I thought for a minute about an actor and a musician simultaneously, but I think that's always very loaded as an actor when you become a "slash," and you do an actor "slash" anything. You better be really, really good at it.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Good

• I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Different
  • Learned
  • Relic

• I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Kitchen
  • Toast
  • Cooked

• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Prison
  • Escape
  • Functions

• A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Kitchen
  • Boards