Erma Bombeck Quotes

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Erma Bombeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CarTimeImproveRingsOnion

I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I'm claustrophobic.

Jessie J

ShoesTallBeingBecauseLike

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Robert Redford

RespondSomethingAmbiguityLike

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

Jeff Bridges

MusicGreatPeopleThinkDoingYou

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

Michael Gambon

LearnSayLinesThemWhoeverWrites

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

Tom Hodgkinson

CreativeLosingProcessYouFind

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

Roddy Doyle

WorldSpeakThinkUniverseAttention

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

Mary Beard

PowerKitchenBlackRememberAngela

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

Molly Ivins

PeopleSpeakStandAmericanMedia

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

LanguageMisleadingWordMostOur

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Denis McDonough

CommunityMeSundayCenterFamiliar

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Anne F. Beiler

BusinessNeverMiracleHappenedAnne

I'm proud of my body, I'm proud of my sport, I'm proud of being a female athlete.

Ali Krieger

ProudBodyAthleteBeingFemale

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