Ogden Nash Quotes

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Ogden Nash

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Jesse Ventura

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I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.

Jennifer Aniston

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Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

John McAfee

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I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Anish Kapoor

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I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

Steve Burns

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A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.

Stan Freberg

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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Sidney Altman

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It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

Sidney Crosby

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I was the youngest in the world in history when I started, 15. That's illegal now.

Roddy Piper

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I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

Rupert Friend

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This is Real Madrid, and I understand there is great pressure for new signings to succeed here.

Luka Modric

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