Top 34 Ephron Of You Got Quotes
#2. I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
Nora Ephron
#3. I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.
Delia Ephron
#4. I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.
Nora Ephron
#5. Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.
Nora Ephron
#6. What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron
#7. I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.
Nora Ephron
#8. We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.
Nora Ephron
#9. That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
Nora Ephron
#10. I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book ... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.
Nora Ephron
#11. You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
#12. Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
Hallie Ephron
#13. Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.
Nora Ephron
#14. When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron
#15. The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many ... somethings. So, thanks.
Nora Ephron
#16. When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
Nora Ephron
#17. No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Nora Ephron
#18. A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it ...
Nora Ephron
#20. It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'
Nora Ephron
#21. I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.
Nora Ephron
#22. Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
Hallie Ephron
#23. If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.
Nora Ephron
#24. So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It's cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
Nora Ephron
#25. In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
Delia Ephron
#27. I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
Nora Ephron
#28. The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
Nora Ephron
#29. What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.
Nora Ephron
#30. You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.
Nora Ephron
#31. Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.
Nora Ephron
#33. We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.
Nora Ephron
#34. At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
Nora Ephron
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