Nora Ephron Quotes

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

Nora Ephron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenPeopleSayingThoughtLaugh

Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.

Jim Lee

WorkCreativeHappyMeCreating

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

Jim Coleman

TimeSchoolShortLeapFilmMaking

When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.

Joe Torre

SleepWinNightWake UpBetterYou

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

RoseFirstSteadyDollarPaycheck

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

Robert Redford

LiveRoadHandsYouBackMove On

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

John James Audubon

NatureLoveAloneMoneyManFind

Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.

Jeff Kober

LifeLookingThinkMeditationUs

My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

John Romaniello

BeautifulWalkPushTryingTrain

When I finally got the chance to do 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' my peers embraced me with the same attitude. They didn't make me feel small or insignificant. They treated me as a peer. It was a wonderful experience.

Sterling K. Brown

AttitudeExperiencePeopleMeSmall

I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces, and I would sing for them.

Tony Bennett

FamilyAmericanSundayOverNephews

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Roger Penrose

MomentPeopleThinkViewSome People

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Michelangelo Antonioni

LiveSocietyGoKnowMeanUs

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