Nash Quotes

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

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

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions

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

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

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

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

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.

I try to only worry about things I have control over.

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.

I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.

Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

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

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

If you have to cry, it's okay. I'll cry with you.

I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.