"We're here for such a short amount of……" — Nick Hornby

"We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?"

— Nick Hornby

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212 Quotes by Nick Hornby

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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…
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of…
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright…
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to…
Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records…
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point…
I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from…
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we…

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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