Ogden Nash Quotes
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
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All jargon of the schools.
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Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
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There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.
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There's always expectation with a Lady A single.
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A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means (according to the formula of Clausewitz). It would be a means of universal suicide.
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The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
