"It struck him that how you spent Christmas……" — Nick Hornby
"It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself"
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212 Quotes by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby has 212 quotes on this site.
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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point…
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from…
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we…
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More Burrow Quotes
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ...…
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To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room…
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All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea.…
— Stefan Zweig
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So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking.…
— Denise Levertov
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A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to…
— Bill Walsh
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There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and…
— Iris Murdoch
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and…
— Jack Hanna
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All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike…
— Gregory Maguire
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Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow…
— Tommy Douglas
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And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that…
— Franz Kafka
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