Top 30 One Day David Nicholls Quotes
#3. I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.
Marie-Antoine Careme
#4. In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#5. The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
David Nicholls
#6. Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
David Nicholls
#7. In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn't thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
David Nicholls
#10. Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.
David Nicholls
#11. Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
Charlie Munger
#12. How I would sing
like a kettle to keep you
Kevin Young
#13. Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.
David Nicholls
#14. Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.
David Nicholls
#15. You know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do ...
David Nicholls
#16. You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.
David Nicholls
#17. Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
David Nicholls
#18. I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
David Nicholls
#19. My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
Ellen Gallagher
#20. Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there.
David Nicholls
#21. I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Pat Conroy
#22. Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#23. What must that be like? To be admired before you've even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you're like?
David Nicholls
#25. At the end of the day, the harsh reality is that if you're a fan of Kate Bush, Charles Dickens, Scrabble, David Attenborough and University Challenge, then there's not much out there for you in terms of a youth movement.
David Nicholls
#26. You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#27. But i hate this date, and will always hate this day every year fromnow on whenever it comes around
David Nicholls
#28. I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.
Rachel Maddow
#29. I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
David Nicholls
#30. If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
Toba Beta
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