Erma Bombeck Quotes

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Erma Bombeck

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• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Thesis

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Done
  • Kids

• Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Think
  • Black
  • Film

• Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Different
  • Happy

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

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • History
  • Present
  • Moment

• 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

• Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Work

• It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • House

• Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Work
  • Different
  • Strong

• In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.

  

  Pete Gallego

• 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.

  

  Diora Baird
  • History
  • Cool
  • Texas

• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  

  Edwin Powell Hubble
  • Science
  • Universe
  • Adventure

• Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

  

  Alan King
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

  

  Anthony Ray Hinton
  • God
  • Answer
  • Everybody

• If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

  

  Lord Salisbury
  • Believe
  • Military
  • Innocent

• A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Funny
  • Humor