Erma Bombeck Quotes

I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.

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• The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Chinese
  • More

• When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Playing
  • Act

• I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Goals

• Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Remember
  • Mean
  • Animal

• The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Past
  • Challenge

• There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Words
  • Story

• If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Home
  • Movie

• Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Man
  • Article
  • Healthy Body

• There were some quality things in the game but we just didn't do any of it for long enough.

  

  Ian Foster
  • Game
  • Quality
  • Enough

• The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Animal

• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Confused

• I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Keep
  • Hoping
  • Get Up

• I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Peace
  • Fight
  • Pacifist

• Rotten wood cannot be carved.

  

  Confucius
  • Wood
  • Rotten
  • Carved

• There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Rude

• If you're always telling people why you can't do something, if you parse everything and nitpick, I've got news for you: You're not going anywhere. If you want to make it in this world, learn to say, "sure, no problem." Practice. It's good for you. When is the last time you went on a limb trusting your gut feeling?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Problem
  • Practice
  • Learn

• I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Why
  • Party

• I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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