Nick Hornby Quotes

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicPeopleTalkingMoreWasted

We tend to rush through life, generally. We don't appreciate the people around us, the relationships we have, or anything.

Jeremy Podeswa

LifePeopleAppreciateRelationships

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

Robert M. Gates

BusinessLieDoneWayMostOther

I love 'Seinfeld.'

Andy Grammer

LoveI LoveSeinfeld

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

Andy Roddick

YouHealthyTopTwoAlwaysBottom

I've always enjoyed playing in Paris, ever since I was a junior and won the junior event there. Being Swiss, this is the Grand Slam that is closest to us - the one we watch first and visit first if we are lucky enough.

Stan Wawrinka

EnoughParisLuckyFirstAlwaysUs

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

WomenManAggressiveMoreArrogant

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Rock Hudson

I AmNameNowRockOvercomeNever

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

Michael Tilson Thomas

MusicChildrenGreatHappyYouPlay

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

Michelle Pfeiffer

GoodFeelings

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Michael Korda

KnowWhyWillWayTurnOut

Ultimately, I feel like I'm doing everything right. I'm slowly but surely climbing up the ladder. I'm taking out bigger names with every fight. Not just beating them on a point level - I'm finishing every single one of my opponents.

Brian Ortega

FightFeelDoingLadderFinishing

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

WorldThinkConsciencePrisoner

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