Ogden Nash Quotes

Purity Is obscurity.

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Hunger

• People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • People
  • Different
  • Light

• It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Good
  • Training

• An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Working
  • Year
  • Active

• You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Idea
  • Competition
  • Place

• I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Money
  • Cause

• The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Enemy

• As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Long
  • Family
  • OK

• It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Always

• It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • You
  • Moment
  • Actor

• The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • She
  • Stop
  • Attention

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Sleep
  • Too Much

• Whenever you have to do a photo shoot with a woman, there is this weird competition. They need to prove something. They need to play games - maybe unconsciously - but women are so sensitive, and people call me more masculine sometimes.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Women
  • Woman

• Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • World
  • Job
  • Lies

• As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Truth
  • You
  • Matter

• I have lots of muses, but one of my main girls is Cara Delevingne. She epitomises the way to wear my clothes. I love how she mixes up her style and the way she has so much fun. I simply adore her.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • People

• I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Soccer
  • Going
  • Coaching

• Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • World
  • American
  • Financial

• Schools of journalism at exemplary American research universities, where the academic disciplines still coexist, are positioned to draw upon the full intellectual and educational resources of the university environment to help produce the skilled, responsible, expert, knowledgeable and highly proficient journalism leaders that our society-indeed the world-has need of, especially in these complex and challenging times, ... Our democracy depends on journalism to keep its institutions challenged and responsive to the public's needs, and the quality of the profession demands the best a university can offer.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • World
  • American
  • Help

• Purity Is obscurity.

  

  Ogden Nash