Erma Bombeck Quotes

All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

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• For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Food

• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Past

• I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Day
  • End
  • Changes

• I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Mindset

• History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • History
  • Present
  • Moment

• I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.

  

  Joe Penny
  • People
  • Up

• Low-value payments are now possible. Now, Ripple can make it easy for Facebook and Uber and Amazon to make payments to developers in real time. It's online and completely global.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Value

• I love, love, love, Halloween. I love dressing up - I think it's rad!

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Up
  • Halloween

• I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

  

  Prince Harry

• I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Night
  • Lipstick

• The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Charity

• I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Daughter

• I open to anything... just about anything.

  

  Luke Perry

• Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

  

  Jill Lepore

• An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson

• I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Heart
  • Gay

• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Moon

• I think debates are healthy. I think they include more people. And I don't believe most people, if they don't win, are just going to take their ball and go home.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

  

  Christine O'Donnell
  • Up

• I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.

  

  Craig Nicholls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Sometimes

• All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Funny
  • Tired
  • Cheer