"In Russia, as I sat there day..." - Quote by Erma Bombeck
In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.
More by Erma Bombeck
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
“Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”
“If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.”
More on Culture
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.”
“I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.”
More on Communication
“The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.”
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.”
“Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.”