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

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

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mom

• 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

• Money talks; there's no question about it.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Money
  • Question

• As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: 'Leaves of Grass - 1855;' 'Duino Elegies;' 'The Captive & The Fugitive;' 'The Castle.'

  

  Jesse Ball

• If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

  

  Anthea Turner
  • God
  • House

• There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • Long
  • Faith
  • Growth

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

  

  Ogden Nash