Erma Bombeck Quotes
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.Erma Bombeck
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Beatrice Wood -
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
Daley Thompson -
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
Edmund Hillary -
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin -
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
Olivia De Havilland -
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Ralph Norman
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud -
I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
Gabrielle Union -
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen -
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
Ralph Steadman
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The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
Jack McDevitt -
We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
Ralph Peters -
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
Adrian Cronauer -
When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.
Derf -
I came from a broken family.
Coco Martin -
I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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Only fighting each other could have brought that much effort out, at a time in their careers when fighters, given all the punches that had landed on them, generally don't want to go that far.
Larry Merchant -
Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
Joseph Heller -
All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
Laura Dern -
Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.
Adam Green -
It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service.
Jim Matheson -
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma Bombeck