Erma Bombeck Quotes
Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.
Erma Bombeck
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick
We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
Gale Norton
My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
Gary Coleman
I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
Kate Walsh
There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
Harriet Harman
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Kuang
I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
Harley Viera-Newton
I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
Camren Bicondova
Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
Karl G. Maeser
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
Marcus Allen
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
Ingrid Newkirk
Time hath a taming hand.
John Henry Newman
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
P. J. O'Rourke
I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
Nate Robinson
Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.
Erma Bombeck
