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David Ogden Stiers
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KELLY JONES I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
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KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool...
ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same tim...
KENNETH EADE Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the act...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
DAVID OGILVY Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?”
Percy wanted to step ...
RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
RICK RIORDAN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
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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...
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DAVID OGDEN [An attorney for Ladner said yesterday that he could not comment on the statement.] I haven't seen i...
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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..
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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.
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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...
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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