Erma Bombeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The world is always in movement.
-
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
-
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
-
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
-
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
-
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
-
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
-
Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
-
My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
-
I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
-
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
-
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
-
Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
-
I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
-
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
-
I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
-
Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
-
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
-
We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'
-
If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.
-
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
-
I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?
-
The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.
-
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
