Erma Bombeck Quotes
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.Erma Bombeck
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Patrick Kavanagh -
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
Padgett Powell -
You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
Campbell Scott -
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince -
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer -
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
Harold Hamm
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
Nadia Giosia -
I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
Victoria Aveyard -
I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan Quayle -
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
Sam Riley -
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Ian Dury -
… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
Eckhart Tolle
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
Arthur C. Clarke -
I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.
Paula Creamer -
I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
David Gest -
Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.
Kevin McCarthy -
It's hard to make a movie that is both funny and emotional, that has something to say and is clear to the audience.
Christopher Miller -
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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Jesus Christ used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.
Elizabeth Zandile Tshele -
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
George Will -
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band -
Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.
D. Patrick Miller -
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
Erma Bombeck