Erma Bombeck Thought Quotes & Sayings

You've done proper already, and it hasn't worked. It's time you do dirty. — Jennifer Probst

the left hand trembling in an eternal so-so. — Boris Fishman

The Pain of Becoming For the flower, it is fully open at each step of its blossoming. We do ourselves a great disservice by judging where we are in comparison to some final destination. This is one of the pains of aspiring to become something: the stage of development we are in is always seen against the imagined landscape of what we are striving for. So where we are - though closer all the time - is never quite enough. — Mark Nepo

I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you're young because you're probably going to mess it up. — Robert Pattinson

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows. — Erma Bombeck

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. — P. J. O'Rourke

You don't know love?"
"No."
"But you're so certain that this is it, that what we have - what we're doing - that this is us in love?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because it's what love should be. — Penny Reid

When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem. — Erma Bombeck

There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones ... and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed. — Emil Nolde

An existant can never justify the existence of another existant. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There's certainly something to be said about the old truism Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. — Vi Keeland

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction. — Richard Hatch

Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count to ten - ten of your own. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it's something that's very natural to care about - it's a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it's a significant emotional choice people make. — Sarah Rees Brennan