Erma Bombeck Quotes

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Erma Bombeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Jiang Wen

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The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Angelina Jolie

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Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting - those are some of the best parts about being alive.

Stewart Butterfield

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I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

Rod Stewart

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The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

Mike Pence

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When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

Michael Welch

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Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

Michael Strahan

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When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked like concept art for 'BoJack.' It's kind of uncanny.

Lisa Hanawalt

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A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

Dolly Parton

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

TruthManMindMoreFarThan

My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.

David Walton

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