Erma Bombeck Quotes
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
Quotes to Explore
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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Voters memories will fade some.
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A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
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Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
