Nora Ephron Quotes

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Nora Ephron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012

Topics

HeroPeopleLaughYouBecomeBanana

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

Jessica Simpson

YourselfYouPerfectLookNever

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

Robert Runcie

TravelPeopleThinkSometimesCook

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

Matthew Heineman

FightToolsSameIdeaUsing

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

Andy Serkis

MeSocietyFeelViewSomeoneSay

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

Stephen Curry

LivePeopleWantUnderstandWayOwn

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

Robbie Williams

ResponsibilitySoloActBeingHuge

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

Roger Federer

CharacterMyselfI AmMeSometimes

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

Martin Parr

SadMoneyTravelPhotographyYou

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Josiah Strong

PrincipalIrishFiftyPopulationTen

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.

Jason Moran

FriendsInsideOutsideBoredHawk

I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.

Jared Polis

HappyBe HappyI CanPublicPrivate

You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it.

Diana Rigg

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