Ogden Nash Quotes

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

Ogden Nash

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• The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Travel
  • Connection
  • Gift

• To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Integrity
  • Election
  • Nobody

• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Done
  • Me

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Hate

• I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Never
  • Story

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Important
  • Children
  • Society

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Man
  • Food

• Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Sometimes
  • Speak
  • Word

• I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Playing

• What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Yourself
  • Develop
  • Admire

• My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Me

• I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Women
  • Challenges
  • Differences

• If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Marriage
  • Fate
  • Differences