Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

Nick Hornby

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• From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Money
  • Moment
  • Talent

• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • End
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Marriage
  • Sad
  • Act

• If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Doing
  • Bored
  • Really

• When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Book
  • Smile

• No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Society

• They were hunting in a place that rich people pay to hunt at, okay? They actually... they drive them to where the animals are! That is not fucking hunting! There's a fence around the place! Son of a bitch! They means they go, when they're tracking the deer, 'Oh, look, we got 'em in the corner!' They turned a petting zoo into Auschwitz!

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Son
  • Hunting

• I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Important
  • Technology
  • motivation

• I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Habit

• Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Growth

• I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Up
  • Children
  • House

• In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

  

  Bjork
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

  

  Kirby Bliss Blanton
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Republican
  • Voting

• My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • Know
  • Son

• I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Writing
  • Guy

• Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

  

  Loretta Lynch

• Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

  

  Nick Hornby
  • Life
  • Compassion
  • Sarcasm