Ogden Nash Quotes

There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

Ogden Nash

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• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

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• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

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• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

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• My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

  

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• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

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• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

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• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

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• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

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• If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.

  

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• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

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• If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

  

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• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

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• In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

  

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• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

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• I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

  

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• Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.

  

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• Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

  

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• The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

  

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• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  

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• It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

  

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• There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Eyes