Erma Bombeck Quotes

For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.

Erma Bombeck

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • True
  • Morality

• I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Negative
  • Silver

• I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Quality

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.

  

  Washed Out
  • Live
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Favorite

• What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • School
  • Change
  • Building

• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Passion
  • Masculine
  • Epic

• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Serious
  • Prison

• We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • People
  • Work
  • History

• In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • High
  • Night
  • Travel

• In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mind

• Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Singing
  • Listening
  • Hearing

• Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • May
  • Taken

• Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

  

  Bruce Beresford

• I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Kids
  • Husband
  • Vacation