Erma Bombeck Quotes

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Erma Bombeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TryingYouTryUpKeepSure

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin

AlwaysSeenDrummingAnywayLyrical

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

Joe Madureira

FreedomCreativeMeStorytellingOut

I love being on the road, but to make a living as a road comic, you have to be on it most weeks out of the year. That's just too much for me. But I would love to be such a successful road comic that I don't have to go on it every week.

Jen Kirkman

LoveMeRoadWeekYearYou

Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering.

Robert Mugabe

PeopleSufferingAnimalsKeepCannot

I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.

Jeffrey Donovan

WorkFeelWatchingBigJustLike

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Tony Benn

AgeOld AgePeopleAppreciateOld

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.

Michael Schenker

MyselfPastMeInspireFeelingPlay

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

Milos Forman

ThinkLearnYouWrongAnythingHow

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Jason Falkner

MusicPeopleMindSongBetterFeel

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

Donna Karan

WomenMenTogetherCelebrateDressed

Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.

Cheo Hodari Coker

ReputationKindGuyGotEvenThough

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

Clay Aiken

MotherTeacherBrotherMeBetter

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