Quote

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

Nora Ephron

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
Blogger
Essayist
Film Director
Film Producer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Reporter
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Something
Stock
Love
Thick
Hot
Add
Crosswords
Cooking
Flour
Fact
Melt
Facts
Butter
Hard
Comforting

More quotes by Nora Ephron

Image
The empty nest is underrated.
Nora Ephron
Image
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Nora Ephron
Image
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. - Sleepless in Seattle
Nora Ephron
Image
Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.
Nora Ephron
Image
[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)
Nora Ephron
Image
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
Nora Ephron
Image
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
Nora Ephron
Image
I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.
Nora Ephron
Image
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.
Nora Ephron
Image
If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
Nora Ephron
Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.
Nora Ephron
Image
…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
Nora Ephron
Image
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
Image
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
Nora Ephron
Image
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
Image
I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.
Nora Ephron
Image
If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
Nora Ephron
Image
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
Nora Ephron
Image
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron
Image
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron