Nick Hornby Quotes

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 17, 1957

Topics

GoodWantQuestionOwnOurHow

I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.

Joe Kennedy III

TimeUnderstandingHealthcareMercy

My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very low maintenance. I feel like I can get up and go and get out of the house. I just don't have it in me to get my hair done all the time.

Jessica Williams

TimeI AmMeHairFeelHouse

I'm very good at drawing fouls.

Joel Embiid

GoodDrawingVery

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

Melanie Lynskey

DriveMother-In-LawGoKnowTwoSee

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

John Hickenlooper

StepOpinionCompromiseBackSerious

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

Lorraine Toussaint

ThinkWayHalfwayDecentActress

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Josette Sheeran

WomenChildrenFaceHungerWellToo

I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.

Sharon Van Etten

MusicSingingKnowCrowdAlongGet

I don't want to be chasing a big, awkward southpaw around the ring. I want a fight that people will enjoy.

Liam Smith

FightPeopleEnjoyWantRingWill

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

Kevin Parker

LifeTimeMyselfGoodbyeEatingYou

I got a bright future ahead of me.

Justin Bieber

FutureMeAheadBrightBright Future

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

James Wolcott

DirectionRealityFeelStrangers

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Nick Hornby