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
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 fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.
Katee Sackhoff
I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. Milne
It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
Billy Crystal
Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.
Charlie Pierce
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Mark Millar
I was lucky enough to meet someone when I was about 46 and had my first child when I was 48, so I got started late, but I also got all that other stuff out of the way and was at a point where I could be a consistent presence at home.
Lindsey Buckingham
Happiness inspires productivity.
Shawn Achor
It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
Yuna
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
Walter Hill
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
Rod Stewart
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
