Erma Bombeck Quotes

Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.

Erma Bombeck

Quotes to Explore

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

Zack Snyder
- Work
- Real
- Art
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

Zachary Quinto
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

Jack Davenport
- Star
- Never
- Child
People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

Isaac Hanson Hanson
- People
- Music
- Age
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo
- Progress
- Human
- Race
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

Nate Silver
- People
- Up
- Time