Ogden Nash Quotes
Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan't be blamed for harboring grudges.I know one hound that laughed all winterAt a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.
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I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
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When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan't be blamed for harboring grudges.I know one hound that laughed all winterAt a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
