Quote

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

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
Sentiments
Romantic
Unsentimental
Romance
Nicked
Core
Romanticism
Unless
Cynic
Become
Sentiment
Think
Chips
Thinking
Cynical

More quotes by Nora Ephron

Image
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
Nora Ephron
Image
I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend
Nora Ephron
Image
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
Nora Ephron
Image
Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
Nora Ephron
Image
Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
Nora Ephron
Image
If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
Nora Ephron
Image
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.
Nora Ephron
Image
I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
Nora Ephron
Image
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
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
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
Image
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Nora Ephron
Image
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
Nora Ephron
Image
people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.
Nora Ephron
Image
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
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
What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?
Nora Ephron
Image
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
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
The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
Nora Ephron