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Ogden Nash Quotes

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: August 19, 1902 - May 19, 1971

Topics

Home Age Hope Night Saturday You

To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

Me Wind Think You Go Fame

You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you're exceptional.

Feel You Individual Being Like

The unhappy people are those who listen to others. I never listened to anyone, and I'm very happy.

Happy People Unhappy Listen Never

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

Good Time Travel Sleep Me Book

I'm for same-sex marriage.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Marriage Same-Sex Marriage Same-Sex

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Mike Rutherford

Writing Seventy I Can Write Hard

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

Mitch McConnell

Building America More Up Force Than

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

Music Deep Think You Dangerous Know

If I want to hear a voice, Lana Del Rey is very soothing, and I could just listen to her on repeat, but my real go-to that's been very consistent for at least the past ten years is Miles Davis.

Antoni Porowski

Past Voice Want Listen Real Repeat

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Peace Death I Am Promotion Results

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

Marjane Satrapi

People Me Hell Paradise Living Mean

With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

Education Music Day People You See

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