Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Nick Hornby
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
Walt Mossberg
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
Jaclyn Smith
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
Earl Nightingale
And Ross again knew himself to be happy-in a new and less ephemeral way than before. He was filled with a queer sense of enlightnment. It seemed to him that all his life had moved to this pinpoint of time down the scattered threads of twenty years; from his old childhood running thoughtless and barefoot in the sun on Hendrawna sands, from Demelza's birth in the squarlor of a mining cottage, from the plains of Virginia and the trampled fairgrounds of Redruth, from the complex impulses which had governed Elizabeth's choice of Francis and from the simple philosophies of Demelza's own faith, all had been animated to a common end-and that end a moment of enlightenment and understanding and completion. Someone - a Latin poet - had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, here and now, past and present and to come. He thought: if we could only stop here. Not when we get home, not leaving Trenwith, but here, here reaching the top of the hill out of Sawle, dusk wiping out the edges of the land and Demelza walking and humming at my side.
Winston Grime
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Edith Piaf
That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
Carrie Jones
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Nick Hornby
