"I've just surfaced from spending several days in……" — Nora Ephron
"I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved."
—
Nora Ephron
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
116 Quotes by Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron has 116 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually…
-
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
-
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
-
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
-
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
-
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot…
-
The empty nest is underrated.
-
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
-
We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five…
-
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking…
-
And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year…
-
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
See all 116 quotes by Nora Ephron »
More Alive Quotes
This quote is filed under Alive Quotes,
one of 4,909 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
— David Attenborough
-
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
-
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
-
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
— Michele Bachmann
-
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
-
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
— James A. Baldwin
-
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
— Ansel Adams
-
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
— Travis Barker
-
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
— Roseanne Barr
-
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
— Roseanne Barr
See all 4,909 Alive Quotes »