About A Boy Nick Hornby Quotes

#1. [ ... ] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

Nick Hornby

#2. Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Donna Mills

#3. I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something.

Frank Oz

#4. This thing about looking for someone less different ... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

Nick Hornby

#5. Anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing ...

James Hillman

#6. Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

Jurgen Habermas

#7. Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Will Cuppy

#8. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

Nick Hornby

#9. I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

Craig McCracken

#10. Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

Vincent De Paul

#11. The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

Ann Burton

#12. Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child ...

Dennis Prager

#13. You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

Nick Hornby

#14. He'd still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem.

Nick Hornby

#15. Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#16. You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

Nick Hornby