Top 100 Sayings About Nan
#1. Mack likes to say that they all got their good looks from him, ... cuz Nan still has hers.
Wm. Paul Young
#2. 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
Laura Mvula
#3. I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.
Jimmy Carr
#4. The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.
L.M. Montgomery
#5. Nan was a sobbing mess. As mean as she was my heart broke for her.
Abbi Glines
#6. She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here ... but God, I wanted her to.
Abbi Glines
#7. At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.
Jools Holland
#8. When you tell her you slept with Nan after taking Harlow's virginity then I'd duck, because the gun will come out, and this time I'm pretty damn sure she'll pull the trigger,
Abbi Glines
#9. The words came out slowly, haltingly, as if they had cost him a struggle. Nan had noticed before now that anger was too big a garment for him; it always hung on him in uneasy folds.
Edith Wharton
#10. It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.
Jessie J.
#11. This was Jonan's boat. She had helped Nan Seller dose his entire crew against the annual diarrhea outbreak known as the winter runs
Sarah Zettel
#12. My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.
Sarah Waters
#13. No, Geo - underneath all that, Nan really loves me. It's just she wants me to see things her way. You know, she's two years older; that meant a lot when we were children. I've always thought of her as being sort of like a road - I mean, she leads somewhere. With her, I'll never lose my way.
Christopher Isherwood
#14. I think I'm in love," he said after swallowing. "I could marry that pie."
"According to the anti-gay crowd, that'll be next," said Nan. "Pies and sheep.
Michael Thomas Ford
#15. Nan, I'm cursed."
"Yeah, I know. We all are." Nan kicked her legs back and forth and grabbed a magazine from Mina's nightstand. "It's called being a teenager.
Chanda Hahn
#16. Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you. Nan-The Otherside
Ashley Jeffery
#17. NaN isn't equal to anything, not even itself, so,
Eric Freeman
#18. Nan always said that as long as there is life, there is hope.
Sabaa Tahir
#19. My hand is stroking the back of Nan's head, my mind racing with every possible scenario. Daniel announced he's gay. Daniel has Erectile Dysfunction. Daniel confessed to being a vampire and not being able to have sex with her because he might kill her.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#20. Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!"
"Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.
Diana Wynne Jones
#21. Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.
Wm. Paul Young
#22. My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.
Jess Glynne
#23. I know you love her. I've never seen you act this crazed in your life. I get that. But Nan hates her. If you love Blaire then protect her from the venom that is dripping from your sister's fangs. Or I will.
Abbi Glines
#24. Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.
Suzy Menkes
#25. Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners - roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose I cook what's comforting and dishes that make me feel good.
April Bloomfield
#26. We were watching telly the night Nan burnt the house down.
Celine Kiernan
#27. It's not rocket science, Nan. You show someone they matter to you - do whatever it takes to show that.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#28. Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.
Jamie Redknapp
#29. My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again ...
Steve Williams
#30. [of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: 'I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.
Olivia Laing
#31. The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.
Liam Payne
#32. Nobody sounds like that! Mom, Aunt Nan, it won't work. No way is he ever, ever, ever going to blend in. And his ... you know ... his shoulders are all wide and he's all tan and looks Superman strong ... and ... "
"Anything else? Should I turn around?
Anne Eliot
#33. Old Nan told him a story about a bad little boy who climbed too high and was struck down by lightning, and how afterward the crows came to peck out his eyes.
George R R Martin
#34. Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.
Philippa Gregory
#35. My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.
Noel Fielding
#36. Susanna, what you need is a man to look after you
a proper one, not a drunk or a philanderer
or sure as fate, you'll not be safe on this earth."
"Oh, nonsense, Nan. I had a man, and he didn't look after me at all, and now I'm just beginning to enjoy myself.
Judith Merkle Riley
#37. Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.
George R R Martin
#38. My nan taught me never to put value on possessions but to value family, friends and people. I buy lovely things and enjoy them, but they don't rule me.
Rebecca Ferguson
#39. I'm sorry, Nan," said Steve. "But I have to kill you." "That's a shame, dear. Mind if I finish my tea first?
Lee Moan
#40. I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#41. The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.
Kate Reardon
#42. Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"
The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being-
Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.
Mercedes Lackey
#43. Where there is life, Nan used to say, there is hope.
Sabaa Tahir
#44. My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.
Al Sharpton
#45. You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!
Edith Wharton
#46. Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
#47. Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade between them for honor's sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword.
George R R Martin
#48. She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".
Russell Howard
#49. I wanted not to give a shit that Nan was upset. She needed to grow the fuck up and realize she wasn't the only person on the planet.
Abbi Glines
#50. Nan was shocked. "What a jerk! Mina, you must feel awful. He didn't try to take advantage of you, did he? I'm so mad- I want to go searching for him and give him a piece of my mind, and a kick in the rear. And Brody, why did you bring such a loser for Mina to date?
Chanda Hahn
#51. Don't assume I'm bluffing Nan. Because this time you've fucked with something I care about. This affects me, so listen and shut the hell up
Abbi Glines
#52. It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.
Nan Aron
#53. A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.
Nan Fairbrother
#54. I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
Nan Goldin
#55. Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
Stewart O'Nan
#56. Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women
all people, finally
complicated?
Stewart O'Nan
#57. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.
Stewart O'Nan
#58. The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
Stewart O'Nan
#60. My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'
Stewart O'Nan
#61. The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.
Nan Goldin
#62. If love was a river, then Martha's was the Nile: enormous, life-giving, and at regular intervals capable of drowning you in murk for reasons you didn't understand. But you couldn't do without it. And no one expected you to.
Nan Willard Cappo
#63. Children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.
Nan Fairbrother
#65. If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
Nan Hayworth
#66. Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Nan Fairbrother
#67. The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.
Nan Hayworth
#68. There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.
Nan Fairbrother
#69. The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
Nan Fairbrother
#70. No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
Stewart O'Nan
#71. These tracks give to winter hill walking a distinctive pleasure. One is companioned, though not in time.
Nan Shepherd
#72. You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.
Nan Kempner
#73. If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
Nan Goldin
#74. Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.
Stewart O'Nan
#75. We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
Nan Hayworth
#76. We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ...
Nan Fairbrother
#77. Eye and foot acquire in rough walking a co-ordination that makes one distinctly aware of where the next step is to fall, even while watching sky and land.
Nan Shepherd
#80. One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
Nan Fairbrother
#81. To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.
Stewart O'Nan
#82. For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.
Stewart O'Nan
#83. You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole
like the world, or the person you loved.
Stewart O'Nan
#84. I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Nan Fairbrother
#85. To Martha it seemed that she stood outside life. The world went by her, colourless shapes on a flat pale background. Nothing had solidity or warmth. She felt numb, as though she could never be passionately alive again.
Nan Shepherd
#86. The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was putting things back in place. He could have told them it was no use, though his whole life he'd done the same.
Stewart O'Nan
#87. I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.
Stewart O'Nan
#88. Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
Nan Goldin
#89. We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
Nan Fairbrother
#90. I'm sorry that you are hurting. It's because of me that you are even here in the first place. I offered to get those passes so I could get to know you. There is something about you that feels so comforting and familiar, and I'm not sure why.
Chanda Hahn
#91. She didn't want to be one of those old ladies obsessed with death, hearing it in every tick of the clock and creak of the floorboards, as if it were prowling around the house like a burglar
Stewart O'Nan
#92. Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.
Nan Robertson
#93. Anyone who says it's easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job.
Nan McCarthy
#94. I spend way more than I should ... and way less than I want.
Nan Kempner
#95. I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
Nan Kempner
#97. What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?
Stewart O'Nan
#98. He means people who let their faith take the place of their reason, people who believe this world is just a prelude to another, more glorious life. He means people like you. *
Stewart O'Nan
#99. I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.
Nan Goldin
#100. She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island
but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die.
Stewart O'Nan
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