Nora Ephron Quotes

When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Money
  • Father

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Truth
  • Eyes
  • Picture

• Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Successful

• I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Love
  • Think
  • Day

• I regret all of my books.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Books
  • Regret

• I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Education
  • Control
  • Question

• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Time
  • Race
  • Solar

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Time
  • Men

• Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Asshole

• Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Work
  • Important
  • Small

• I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • People
  • Good
  • Hope

• People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • People
  • Funny
  • Player

• I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

  

  Ana Gasteyer

• I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Business

• Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

  

  Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • People
  • Together

• Fashion needs to be worn.

  

  Christian Lacroix
  • Fashion

• I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Independent

• When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it!

  

  Liz Phair
  • Happy

• Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • People
  • Why
  • Trust

• When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

  

  Nora Ephron
  • Happy
  • Dog
  • Teenagers