Top 100 Quotes About Nora
#1. There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.
Marilyn Grey
#2. Nora: Torvald, don't look at me like that!
Torvald: Can't I look at my richest treasure? At all that beauty that's mine, mine alone-completely and utterly.
Henrik Ibsen
#3. Kick hard when you have the chance. Aim for parts that hurt. Hope you get lucky and his surprise shocks him into being stupid. Then knock him out with the shovel if you've got one handy. If not, go find the shovel." - Nora
Timandra Whitecastle
#4. I'm not moping. (Ewan)
Oh, forgive me. See, where I come from an upside-down smile means you're frowning, and if you're frowning while withdrawn from everyone and everything, it means you're moping. I guess here in your cave, the world is backward and a frown means you're happy. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#5. Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast.
Robyn Carr
#6. Einstein vigorously wagged his tail. Thoughtfully, Nora said, "Escaped ... " Travis knew what she must be thinking. To Einstein, he said, "They'll be looking for you, won't they?" The dog whined and wagged his tail - which Travis interpreted as a "yes" with a special edge of anxiety.
Dean Koontz
#7. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
Nora Watson quoted by Studs Terkel2
R. Paul Stevens
#8. I'll piously gather up the crumbs of your feasts and make a meal of them," said Nora. "I'll let you know how they taste.
Henry James
#9. His name is Spanks for Nothing. It's destiny. We belong together. -Nora
Tiffany Reisz
#10. Ah, lassies, be sure ye make good decisions, firm and fast. Those who don't know what they want get what they deserve.
OLD WOMAN NORA OF LOCH LOMOND
TO HER THREE WEE GRANDDAUGHTERS ONE COLD NIGHT
Karen Hawkins
#11. Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I've got it bad for you.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#12. Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
Henrik Ibsen
#13. Simple game - he'd fill a wineglass with one of his expensive reds and set it on the edge of the table. Then he would fuck me. Hard." Nora grinned as Wesley flinched. "If I thrashed too much, or fought him and knocked the glass off ... then the wine wasn't the only red that we spilled that night.
Tiffany Reisz
#14. Nora said, "I thought vampires drank virgin blood. They hypnotize ... they turn into bats ... " Setrakian said, "They are much romanticized. But the truth is more ... how should I say?" "Perverse," said Eph. "Disgusting," said Nora.
Guillermo Del Toro
#15. Have you always been so large? (Nora)
Aye. I came from my mother's womb at full height. The shock of it almost killed her. (Ewan)
Kinley MacGregor
#17. How are you holding up?' Stephen had asked in the parking lot, and it had come as a relief. Because even if you don't know the answer, Nora thinks, leaving the foyer, it is nice to be asked.
Maya Lang
#20. I now understood darker emotions within themselves are not evil. It is the intent of the person who feels them that determines their fate.
~Nora~ The Light of Asteria
Elizabeth Isaacs
#21. I really shouldn't leave," Zach said, terrified what would happen the second he found himself alone with Nora.
"Come on, Zach. This party sucks and not in the good way. I've had pap smears more fun than this."
Zach covered a laugh with a cough.
"I must admit you do have a way with words.
Tiffany Reisz
#22. Nora Ephron's great line that overtipping only costs a few dollars more.
John Waters
#23. Let's be best friends," Nora said. "We can braid each other's hair and murder runaways together.
Tiffany Reisz
#24. As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
Hallie Ephron
#25. I love you, Nora. I will think you beautiful when I have no eyes left to see. I will remember your voice when my ears go. You can't hold on to me forever, but I will hold on to you until I am nothing but dirt.
Lia Habel
#26. That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#27. Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he no longer felt like a drowning man at sea. Nora ... the siren and the goddess, the ship and the wine-dark sea. She would either save him or end him.
Tiffany Reisz
#28. Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night.
Karen Hawkins
#29. For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.
Dennis R. Miller
#30. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.
Jessa Crispin
#31. She wanted a degree in business technology, not to be the next freaking Nora Roberts.
Mari Carr
#32. Kingsley, before you say anything that could land you or me in jail, you should know you're on speaker phone with your fan club," Nora said. "Did you know you had a fan club?"
"Non," he said. "But I'm not surprised.
Tiffany Reisz
#33. Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.'
Lady Nora: 'I am sorry to hear that, I suppose it takes some wit to produce one's own entertainment. Are you often bored?
Meredith Duran
#34. You don't want me, Nora. I'll fuck you, and when I'm done, I'll leave you.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#35. I happen to like being sad over nothing at all. I find it suits me. (Ewan)
A smile would suit you better. My mother always says that a smile is dressing for the face. (Nora)
And I always say the face, much like the body, is best left naked. (Ewan)
Kinley MacGregor
#36. Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.
Djuna Barnes
#37. I'm not going to kill you, Nora. I don't kill people who are important to me. And you top the list.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#38. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
James Joyce
#39. My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you," she said. "How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." I pushed Asta out of the way and got up.
Dashiell Hammett
#40. Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: "Stop being nasty.
Dashiell Hammett
#41. Nora, I believe life's like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life changes, you start a new chapter. To me, there's nothing more depressing than someone getting to the end of their days and realizing they've only written one long, boring passage.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#42. I was always a huge fan of Nora Ephron.
Haylie Duff
#43. In all things involving Nora Sutherlin, proceed with caution.
Tiffany Reisz
#44. Was there any woman in the world quite like Nora? He was so glad she existed; even more glad there was only one of her.
Tiffany Reisz
#45. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was looking for. (Nora)
Becca Fitzpatrick
#46. My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
Garance Dore
#47. I looked at the book lying on a table. Though not a great reader myself, I knew that those who were - even Nora - could grow testy when one came between them and their books.
Susan Higginbotham
#48. Yes, there was a nun in my bed," Nora said with a sigh.
"This is my favourite story already," Kingsley said. "Go on.
Tiffany Reisz
#49. NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
Henrik Ibsen
#50. Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing.
Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening
Karen Hawkins
#51. You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward.
Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn't the SAT, Nora.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#52. For every man there was an inferior woman, for every writer there was a checker," said Nora Ephron. "they were the artists and we were the drones.
Lynn Povich
#53. From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
Natasha Lyonne
#54. I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
Kate Klise
#55. I ran this through my "girl talk" translator and said, "I could eat him, if either of you'd like. Seems like it might be the easiest thing to do."
-Bram to Nora & Pamela
Lia Habel
#56. Nora & Patch:
N:Is everything a joke to you?
P:Not everything.
N:Like what?
P:You.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#58. You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?" "I told them," Nora said. "Age is only a number," Angie said. "So is sixty-nine," Maxine said.
Tiffany Reisz
#59. Nora: What are you planning?
Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#60. Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?
Claire Messud
#62. At the end Nora swayed in my arms to something slow and very old, after being convinced that, yes, this is how we slow-dance behind Punk lines, and no, I'm not telling you that just so I can hold you.
Lia Habel
#63. In the end, Nora, there's only time. All we have is time ... and even if this wasn't happening, we still don't ever have much ... no one does. We only have the moment we're in. We have right now.
Dennis Sharpe
#65. I think his accent got me pregnant," Maxine said. "I think I passed out. I need mouth to mouth. Kingsley's mouth," Katie said. "I think I need a trip to Manhattan," Jessika said. "And birth control. Lots of birth control." "I think you all need to go jump in the pond," Nora said.
Tiffany Reisz
#66. There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.
Nancy Pearl
#67. I love you, Nora. Whatever happens, promise me you'll remember that. I don't care why you came into my life, only that you did. I don't remember all the things I did wrong. I remember what I did right, I remember you. You made my life meaningful. You made my life special.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#68. Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape?
Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice
Dennis R. Miller
#69. when I took that first deep breath and saw the clear summer sky, and heard my sister and Little Jimmy and Nora and even Sally and JT cheering for me, I swear I heard the lions roar. Click
Kristin Levine
#70. Nora Lindell was gone. And, with Trey Stephens in jail, he was gone, too, in a way. By this time, we'd already lost Minka Dinnerman, as well (a car crash and cancer, respectively). It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who'd left us behind.
Hannah Pittard
#71. I'd like to sleep for a hundred years, wake up and try again.
-Nora Blakely
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#72. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.
Eleanora Duse
#73. Welcome to the world of being owned. You'll like it. Until you hate it. Nora
Tiffany Reisz
#74. daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted.
Kristin Hannah
#75. The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
Tammin Sursok
#76. He kissed her on the forehead. "What would I ever do without my Little One?"
Nora swallowed an unexpected lump in her throat. "I promise, you won't ever have to find out.
Tiffany Reisz
#77. Vee: And I'm not going to let you sit at home all afternoon with your sour face on.
Nora: I don't have a sour face.
Vee: Yes, you do. And you're wearing it right now.
Nora: This is my annoyed face. You woke me up at six in the morning!
Becca Fitzpatrick
#78. Nora, your self-pity monitor is beeping, it's telling me you're feeling sorry for yourself over something trivial and need to get a life.
L. H. Cosway
#79. Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
M.J. Rose
#81. K-dar," Nora said and tapped the side of her nose. "Kinksters can smell it on each other.
Tiffany Reisz
#82. Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
Dashiell Hammett
#83. Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us."
When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. "Now what's up?" I asked.
"Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that."
I said: "if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.
Dashiell Hammett
#84. Wesley looked down at her and Nora could barely meet his brown eyes, which bored into her with the fiery love of a guardian angel. God probably had eyes like Wesley's ... anyone who looked into them wanted to immediately apologize for any and all sins ever committed.
Tiffany Reisz
#85. Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan)
Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#86. Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I'm a boy. Like Dorian Gray."
"Dorian who?"
I sighed. "Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know."
"Sure thing, Gumdrop."
I grimaced. "I take that back. Let's stick with Grey.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#87. I killed one! I stabbed it in the head with a parasol."
Even Nora couldn't find words for this revelation. Renfield was the first to comment. "I can't tell if that's the most inspiring thing I've ever heard of the most horrifying.
Lia Habel
#88. Our Nora has a magic pussy. It's the opposite of the Bermuda Triangle. Lost men sail into it and then find themselves.
Tiffany Reisz
#89. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomond
To her three wee Grandaughters one cold night.
Karen Hawkins
#90. Her hotline rang.
"Mistress Nora's House of Ill Repute. How may I direct your cock?"
"You aren't cute," Kingsley said.
"I beg to differ. I'm fucking precious.
Tiffany Reisz
#91. Nora saw that people don't always say what they think, Or say what they think they are saying.
Orit Gidali
#92. If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
Nora Ephron
#93. There are a number of good spells for making an animal speak," Aruendiel said to Nora. "It is far more difficult to make them say anything worth listening to." "That
Emily Croy Barker
#94. Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.
Dashiell Hammett
#95. He had a son, but he died some years ago, on a foreign trip. His ex-wife's dead, too, and I've never seen any woman there." Nora shook her head. "It's an awful thing to think about. Dead for four days and no one even notices. That's how unconnected he seemed to be.
Tess Gerritsen
#96. Let's get on with it. Pick a position. Trust me, no matter how acrobatic, we can do it."
"No wall sex though, please," Griffin requested ... "Nora's a lot heavier than she looks.
Tiffany Reisz
#97. Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?"
"No, but she will because she has to.
Robyn Carr
#98. I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!
Amy Weber
#99. On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women.
Dennis R. Miller
#100. I'm much younger than I look, I promise." Nora's smile broadened. "I'm aging horribly.
Tiffany Reisz
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