Erma Bombeck Quotes

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

Erma Bombeck

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • God
  • Right

• I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hope

• Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

  

  Sally Mann
  • You
  • Stand
  • Digital

• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Being
  • Confuse
  • Blunt

• This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Learning
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Book
  • Anxiety
  • Helped

• I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Fan
  • Cooper

• The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Die
  • Courage
  • More

• I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Now
  • Paint
  • Oil

• I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Know
  • Crazy
  • Person

• I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Bad
  • High
  • Heels

• Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happy
  • Successful
  • Habit

• I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Worry

• 'Bake Off' is one of my favourite programmes, so I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Very
  • Favourite
  • Shocked

• I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Different
  • Projects

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• But science is not a democracy. Science is a brutal arena where ideas are picked apart, attacked, and tested to see if they hold up. Those that do hold up live to fight another day. Those that don’t are dragged off and discarded. To survive, a theory must be supported by vibrant, meaningful, replicable research.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Justice
  • Helping
  • Challenges

• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Nature
  • Welcome
  • Carpet

• I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Dinner
  • Carpet