Erma Bombeck Quotes

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

Erma Bombeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ShoppingWhyStealingWouldCart

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

Joe Penny

PeopleDoingSurroundedWantedLot

I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It's inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I've offended them, and that will be that.

Jeremy Clarkson

TimeDayStruggleAngelSurviveSay

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

WordsVoiceMeaningDownMeanHuman

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

YouDigitalSeeMadeFormatForm

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

Michael Foreman

ChildrenChildHouseOnlyBooksOur

Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams, or product lines are acquiring startups that are searching for a business model. If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies that are executing.

Steve Blank

BusinessIntellectualSearchingStage

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

Michael Stuhlbarg

WorkHopeDiversityPeopleMeThink

It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done.

Douglas Tompkins

TogetherYouComplicatedDoneGet

I'm living out my dreams every day.

Bozoma Saint John

DreamsDayEvery DayLivingOut

I'm someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot.

Anne-Marie Duff

SomeoneWhoLaughsLotCries

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

William Stone

WorkPeopleRandomThinkEngineering

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

William T. Vollmann

CoffeeJobCollegeMeSmallWings

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