Erma Bombeck Quotes

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

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• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Free
  • Consequences
  • Bullying

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Great
  • Parents

• In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Space

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Business
  • Leader

• We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Believe
  • Environmental

• When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Important
  • You
  • Interesting

• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Understanding
  • Possible

• I love my life. I love my work. I love my training. It's all due to my love for life, my love for people. I'm very happy to be alive.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

  

  Kate Spade
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Company

• This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Game
  • Sound

• Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.

  

  Lyall Watson
  • Experience
  • Water
  • Air

• There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • World

• You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Dad
  • Myself

• If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there's something around me protecting me.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Mind

• Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Home
  • Forever
  • Egyptian