Ogden Nash Quotes
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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Feeling better is not actually being better.
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I always have multiple ladybugs around because they're lucky, and they're good for flowers and the environment.
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Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
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It seems that we're heading toward the day that films will be released in all platforms simultaneously, albeit with a cost premium to see it at home. But I hope that theater-going doesn't end - I think that watching movies on the big screen with an audience is still the best format and also an important one for society.
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And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
