Ogden Nash Quotes

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

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• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

  

  Babyface
  • Time
  • Work
  • Artist

• I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Political
  • Choices
  • Speak

• I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Leaving
  • Kid
  • Priorities

• We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • House
  • Cool

• My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Good
  • House
  • Environment

• People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • History
  • Study

• Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Think
  • Political

• Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Words
  • Government

• I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Shameless

• I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Together
  • Value
  • Organization

• E-cigarette companies are using shameful tactics, such as Joe Camel-like cartoons in advertisements and creating e-cigarette flavors like bubblegum and cotton candy, to addict our children early - and guarantee another generation of smokers.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Children
  • Candy

• As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Good
  • Women
  • Candy

• Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29 - April 1995: 'Layne Staley Unchained'

  

  Layne Staley
  • April

• As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Candy
  • Quicker
  • Dandy