Erma Bombeck Quotes

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Erma Bombeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1927 - April 22, 1996

Topics

WorldLookParadiseNothingMore

You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

John Candy

LoveWaitFreeYouActorWill

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

Shirley Booth

FriendWomanOldDirectorBetting

Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.

Travis Kalanick

TodayArchitectureProblemsProblem

Boxing is the only thing I have ever understood - I certainly don't understand women.

Tony Bellew

WomenBoxingUnderstandUnderstood

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

Robert Duvall

LiveCharacterChallengeMeAction

I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up.

Rozonda Thomas

Growing UpLateGrowingUpIssue

The phenomena here is the foreign fighter threat, the revolving door from Europe to the region in Iraq and Syria and back through Turkey, back into Europe. And that's what happened in the Paris attackers.

Michael McCaul

DoorBackParisFighterEuropeHere

Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.

Diana Gabaldon

GoodPeopleThoughtNowWriteGlue

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Donald Rumsfeld

PeopleAmericanLearnYouHouse

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

David Shields

MusicArtPaintingForwardRoyalty

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.

Christopher Guest

PeopleMeDoingWorthEmotional

Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.

Pierre Pettigrew

ForwardStrongLookCanadaChina

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