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Erma Bombeck Quotes

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Dog Water Child Doing Nothing Call

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.

Jerry A. Webman

Growth Time Short You Fast India

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Men People Ideas World Believe

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Life Mind Me Sister Writing Short

I don't want to have people get completely sick of me before I've ever even done something legitimate.

People Me Sick Done Want Something

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.

Me Night Speak Better Go Australia

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

Time Honor Year Philadelphia First

The thing that is so touching about - I can come right up and call him Mr. Simon. The thing that's great about Mr. Simon is he really uses the audience as a partner, and they tell him what's working and what's not. So he's always working on a play.

Great Partner I Can Play Right Him

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

Me Singing Energy Lot Gives

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

Time Myself Simple Song Deep Worry

What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

Mary Tyler Moore

Eye Place Blood Inside Dying Task

It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

Struggle Take Beliefs Set Flip

So many of the major decisions that affect the entire future of your enterprise happen during its first year in business. In fact, most don't make it because they don't know how to get the resources they need to survive.

Future Business Survive Year Know

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