World Quotes by Nick Hornby

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by…

— Nick Hornby

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

— Nick Hornby

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

— Nick Hornby

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though…

— Nick Hornby

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

— Nick Hornby

There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham)

— Nick Hornby

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just…

— Nick Hornby

Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was…

— Nick Hornby

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication…

— Nick Hornby

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so…

— Nick Hornby

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want…

— Nick Hornby

It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I…

— Nick Hornby

I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have…

— Nick Hornby

Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah,…

— Nick Hornby

Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or…

— Nick Hornby

I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable…

— Nick Hornby

Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they…

— Nick Hornby