Ogden Nash Quotes

Being a fatherIs quite a bother,But I like it, rather.

Ogden Nash

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• As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Time
  • Football
  • Year

• I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Now
  • Now And Then
  • Bath

• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Appetite

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • College
  • Myself
  • Hair

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Me

• My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mom

• Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Life
  • Friends
  • News

• I feel more comfortable in a place like Brighton - a town, with one centre, one bus station, one train station. And there are so many arty, creative people, and things are less rushed, less stressed.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Creative
  • Train

• And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Death
  • Small

• There were times and you want to be free My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me. Oh I've been loving you a little too longI don't wanna stop now, oh. With you my life, Has been so wonderful. I can't stop now.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Stop

• A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May

• So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Thoughts

• This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

  

  Katy Perry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Great
  • Success

• I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Kind
  • Helping
  • Plenty

• The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Character
  • Played
  • Layers

• Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Help
  • Stupid
  • Actors

• Being a fatherIs quite a bother,But I like it, rather.

  

  Ogden Nash