Nick Hornby Quotes

My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AbandonedComputerProjectsLittered

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

John Boyne

GoodEnvironmentEasyLivingEvents

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

Jerry Falwell

WorldDrivingNationJewishMiddle

That's the thing: pop music has sometimes had a bad reputation for being about a lot of other stuff than the music. And I am just a lover of pop music. I love pop. I love big choruses. Dramatic choruses - they're the best thing in the world. And I do this because I love making music and performing the songs.

Sigrid

LoveMusicBestI AmWorldBad

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

Jasmine Guinness

FatherMotherEyesLipsBuildThank

I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.

Donny Osmond

LifestyleExpensiveLavish

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CharacterBestMedicineNever Forget

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

Christopher Eccleston

MoneyTheatreBetterActingMore

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

Woodrow Wilson

RedPeopleAmericanHumanityPlace

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Wynton Marsalis

MusicSongLearnPushInformation

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

LoveAloneLivingWayDeepestTakes

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

Peter Mandelson

SpacePeopleWorldTake For Granted

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Richard P. Feynman

FunnyFunPracticeInterestingYou

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