Erma Bombeck Quotes

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

Erma Bombeck

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• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • God
  • Sense
  • Enthusiasm

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• I love to smile.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Love
  • Smile
  • I Love

• It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Better
  • Than
  • Has-Been

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Like
  • Winter
  • Snow

• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Words
  • Single

• I always like to tell a story.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Like
  • Always
  • Story

• My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Goal
  • Gold
  • Still

• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Would
  • Sure
  • Babysitting

• The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Know
  • Calm
  • Needed

• Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Idea
  • Find
  • Wealth

• Du sollst dir kein Ideal machen, weder eines Engels im Himmel, noch eines Helden aus einem Gedicht oder Roman, noch eines selbstgeträumten oder fantasirten; sondern du sollst einen Mann lieben, wie er ist.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• The class of 'No technical solution problems' has members. My thesis is that the 'population problem,' as conventionally conceived, is a member of this class.

  

  Garrett Hardin

• I'm a little obsessed with lip balm. When I go to a new place, I'll find the locally made natural lip balms and buy them as my little memento.

  

  Betsy Hodges

• In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• Essentially what's going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the space, how delicious the food is, how they perceive the value and, most important of all, how they feel treated. My understanding is Stephen Starr is exceptionally good at all of this and his ability to create a transporting experience.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Done
  • Power
  • Light

• I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

  

  Erma Bombeck
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