Ogden Nash Quotes

It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,That lays eggs under your skin.

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Never
  • Need
  • Motivated

• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Me
  • Ladies
  • Gentlemen

• The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Couple
  • Makeup
  • Cry

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Hands
  • Police
  • Dead

• I am an economist, not an astrologer.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Economist
  • Astrologer

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Environment

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Tone

• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Knees
  • Which
  • Affects

• In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Roots

• The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Paris
  • Chocolate
  • Pastries

• It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Celebrity
  • Go
  • Zero

• 'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Great
  • Music
  • Business

• The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Short

• I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

  

  Halsey
  • Doing
  • Popular
  • Some

• The only sin is the sin of being born.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Small

• I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Light

• I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • House
  • Read
  • Supposed

• My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Time
  • Why
  • Ambition

• Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Church
  • Humans

• It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,That lays eggs under your skin.

  

  Ogden Nash