David Ogden Stiers quote: "The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth."

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese fil...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming ou...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your ...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection fo...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absol...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion th...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orches...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how ...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers,...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. Peop...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very d...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the exp...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS

Given the Court of Appeals decision, this is a fair resolution for the American taxpayer.
DAVID OGDEN

There's definitely a growing gap between African-American culture and baseball. The doors Jackie Rob...
DAVID OGDEN

We are looking at possible future layoffs.
DAVID OGDEN

We allege that in carrying out that campaign, they pulled no punches, ... For decades, they repeated...
DAVID OGDEN

The resolution of these issues ensures that this evidence of one of the most tragic events in Americ...
DAVID OGDEN

Today's decision by the arbitration panel secures the original Zapruder film for the public and guar...
DAVID OGDEN

[An attorney for Ladner said yesterday that he could not comment on the statement.] I haven't seen i...
DAVID OGDEN

It's our belief that presidential papers belong to all the American people.
DAVID OGDEN

There have been discussions between a group of trustees and Dr. Ladner, which are designed, we under...
DAVID OGDEN

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who neve...
OGDEN NASH

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
OGDEN NASH

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to wo...
OGDEN NASH

Too clever is dumb.
OGDEN NASH

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someo...
OGDEN NASH

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is r...
OGDEN NASH

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she w...
OGDEN NASH

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
OGDEN NASH

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they r...
OGDEN NASH

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
OGDEN NASH

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
OGDEN NASH

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you ho...
OGDEN NASH

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
OGDEN NASH

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
OGDEN NASH

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that t...
OGDEN NASH

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
OGDEN NASH

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment linge...
OGDEN NASH

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and tha...
OGDEN NASH

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whene...
OGDEN NASH

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who can...
OGDEN NASH

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or ...
OGDEN NASH

A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.
OGDEN NASH

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle...
OGDEN NASH

America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you ...
FRANK OGDEN

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate ...
OGDEN NASH

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
OGDEN NASH

You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.
OGDEN NASH

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
OGDEN NASH

They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
OGDEN NASH

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentenc...
OGDEN NASH

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she wa...
OGDEN NASH

He without benefit of scruples
His fun and money soon quadruples.
OGDEN NASH

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
OGDEN NASH

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
OGDEN NASH

Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.
OGDEN NASH

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell...
OGDEN NASH

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
OGDEN NASH

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a cl...
OGDEN NASH

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
OGDEN NASH

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and ...
OGDEN NASH

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
OGDEN NASH

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the co...
OGDEN NASH

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
OGDEN NASH

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, onl...
OGDEN NASH

I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.
TOM OGDEN

I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fa...
OGDEN NASH

Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
That is why your Cousin...
OGDEN NASH

Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's ...
OGDEN NASH

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so...
OGDEN NASH

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
OGDEN NASH

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
OGDEN NASH

If some confectioners were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
We'd encounter fewer...
OGDEN NASH

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disap...
OGDEN NASH

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman wh...
OGDEN NASH

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it
OGDEN NASH

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope i...
OGDEN NASH

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'l...
OGDEN NASH

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday...
OGDEN NASH

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
OGDEN NASH

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
OGDEN NASH

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make u...
OGDEN NASH

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
OGDEN NASH

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them
OGDEN NASH

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH

O misery, misery, mumble and moan!
Someone invented the telephone,
And interrupted a nation's ...
OGDEN NASH

Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently...
OGDEN NASH

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
TOM OGDEN

Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to g...
OGDEN NASH

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the bes...
OGDEN NASH

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
OGDEN NASH

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Wh...
OGDEN NASH

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
OGDEN NASH

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
OGDEN NASH

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
OGDEN NASH

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently dis...
OGDEN NASH

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
OGDEN NASH

They gave us everything we could handle. They're one of the best 1-4 teams I've ever seen.
BUD OGDEN

He was still a huge question mark. It wasn't until he started (with WVBC) that he had the time and t...
BUD OGDEN

If he was going to beat us, it would be from the line.
BUD OGDEN

He's kind of unique. I expect big things out of him.
BUD OGDEN

I'll be disappointed if we don't do well in league. I want to leave it broad like that.
BUD OGDEN

Tuesday is a huge one and if we can take care of business, it looks like a time where anybody can be...
BUD OGDEN

Frankie has improved and improved and improved.
BUD OGDEN

We couldn't have written an ending to this rivalry better. From our perspective, we snatched a victo...
BUD OGDEN

We did what we had to do to win. We got rebounds when we had to and got to loose balls. Players step...
BUD OGDEN

Nothing would make me happier. I know that program inside and out. That's a ways off and a lot can h...
BUD OGDEN

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
OGDEN NASH

Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny -
Did you ever try b...
OGDEN NASH

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of t...
OGDEN NASH

He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.
OGDEN NASH

The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart...
OGDEN NASH

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they ...
OGDEN NASH

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed,...
OGDEN NASH

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.
OGDEN NASH

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never fo...
OGDEN NASH

I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboard...
OGDEN NASH

Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
OGDEN NASH

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
OGDEN NASH

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they reall...
OGDEN NASH

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone e...
OGDEN NASH

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
OGDEN NASH

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I&...
OGDEN NASH

Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the bro...
OGDEN NASH

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most ...
OGDEN NASH

He's a legend. He deserves respect.
CLAY OGDEN

They were on a roll. There was definitely a momentum switch at the tail end of the game.
BUD OGDEN

There's good news and bad news. We're definitely nowhere near being out of the woods.
CYNTHIA OGDEN

Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer
OGDEN NASH

We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and g...
CYNTHIA OGDEN

I was particularly concerned about seeing the increase in children, because we know that children wh...
CYNTHIA OGDEN

About 17 percent of children are overweight and about a third of adults are obese.
CYNTHIA OGDEN

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return...
OGDEN NASH

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was prepa...
OGDEN NASH

Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, da...
OGDEN NASH

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
OGDEN NASH

How quickly the gun was pulled, it didn't seem like there was rational thinking there so that's what...
AMANDA OGDEN

He had pulled a gun and said, excuse my language here, but said, 'I'll (expletive) shoot her, I'll (...
AMANDA OGDEN

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a cl...
OGDEN NASH

Our dog kind of got a little jumpy ... and the dogs went to kind of say hello and he swung his stick...
AMANDA OGDEN

I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and gran...
OGDEN NASH

Purity is obscurity.
OGDEN NASH

Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends
OGDEN NASH

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.
OGDEN NASH

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buyi...
OGDEN NASH

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the tur...
OGDEN NASH

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives ...
OGDEN NASH

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH

Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
OGDEN NASH

Some people's money is merited/ And other people's is inherited.
OGDEN NASH

Do you think my mind is maturing late,Or simply rotted early?
OGDEN NASH

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work
OGDEN NASH

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
OGDEN NASH

Women would rather be right than reasonable
OGDEN NASH

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they ...
OGDEN NASH

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the bes...
OGDEN NASH

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenev...
OGDEN NASH

Candy Is dandy, But liquor Is quicker
OGDEN NASH

Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is nev...
OGDEN NASH

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
OGDEN NASH

To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
OGDEN NASH

You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,/ Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks./ From river to ri...
OGDEN NASH

If called by a panther,/ don't anther.
OGDEN NASH

Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar number...
OGDEN NASH

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence
OGDEN NASH

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They...
CHARLES OGDEN

He worked as hard as any other pilot, and his stick and throttle are above most others.
CLAY OGDEN

Every Englishman knows one thing - that to be an Englishman is the best thing there is.
OGDEN NASH

It'll be no picnic. We're going to have to shoot the ball better or it's going to be a long afternoo...
BUD OGDEN

The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk
OGDEN NASH

And one of his partners asked ''Has he vertigo?'' and the other glanced out and down and said ''Oh n...
OGDEN NASH

One would be in less danger from the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith were more fun t...
OGDEN NASH

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for
OGDEN NASH

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no...
OGDEN NASH

Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect
HOWARD OGDEN

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even...
OGDEN NASH

The guy can just roll the rock. The putt he made on 17 was something. The way he has it going right ...
CLAY OGDEN

The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.

David Ogden Stiers

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