Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron Quotes
114 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning,... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
You can never have too much butter – that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it,
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her…The sex thing is always out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
It seemed to me that the desire to get married—which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women—is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge, which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
On parenting:
A successful parent is one who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
You can't retrieve your life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
When I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.
Nora Ephron
Source
Report...
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
Nora Ephron
1
2
3
4
5
Quote of the day
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Nora Ephron
Creative Commons
Born:
May 19, 1941
Died:
June 26, 2012
(aged 71)
Bio:
Nora Ephron was an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger.
Known for:
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Julie & Julia (2009)
Silkwood (1983)
Most used words:
women
people
life
day
sex
married
reading
read
story
time
love
meant
hair
thought
book
Nora Ephron on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Nora Ephron Quotes
Nora Ephron Short Quotes
American Screenwriter Quotes
Screenwriter Quotes
20th-century Screenwriter Quotes
20th-century Women
Women Screenwriters
Related People
Delia Ephron
American Film producer
Meg Ryan
American Producer
Julie Powell
American Blogger
Family
Carl Bernstein
Spouse
Dan Greenburg
Spouse
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes