Nora Ephron Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
-
I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
-
I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
-
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
-
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
-
Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
-
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
-
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
-
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
-
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
-
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
-
Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
-
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
-
We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
-
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
-
I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
-
We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
-
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
-
I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
-
I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.
-
We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
-
I find myself very drawn to the experience of church. I love to be in a surrounding that's so welcoming. People come shake your hand. That's not always the case in most synagogues I've been in. I also find more of an emphasis on how to live and grow as a person. And I have to say, I'm very inspired by Jesus.
-
Ideas... they have the power.
-
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
