Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

  Nick Hornby

  People, Trouble, Involved

  7 Copy quote

• The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

  Nick Hornby

  Want, Keep Going

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.192, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Nick Hornby

  Christmas, World, Messages

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.138, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.

  Nick Hornby

  Temperature, Trouble

  4 Copy quote

• Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

  Nick Hornby

  Sad, Complicated, Bleakness

  10 Copy quote

• The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, Past, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

  Nick Hornby

  War, Book, Reading

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

  7 Copy quote

• He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?

  Nick Hornby

  Pain, Real, Expression

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.127, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

  Nick Hornby

  Narrative, Behind You, Bunch

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.227, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

• ...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.

  Nick Hornby

  Real, Imagination, Unexpected

  4 Copy quote

• Human beings are millions of things in one day.

  Nick Hornby

  One Day, Humans, Millions

  4 Copy quote

• I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, Holiday, Thinking

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

• Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

  Nick Hornby

  Live Life, Emotional, Unhappy

  4 Copy quote

• Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Men, Boys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.23, Penguin

  23 Copy quote

• I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Crush, Thinking

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.63, Penguin UK

  8 Copy quote

• The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, People, Listening

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

• [H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

  Nick Hornby

  Soccer, Female, Finals

  4 Copy quote

• I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

  Nick Hornby

  Together, Stories, Happens

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.279, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

  Nick Hornby

  Dramatic, Being Human, Enough

  "How does it feel to be a woman? First, the Good News". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2001.

  8 Copy quote

• It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

  Nick Hornby

  Stupid, Ejaculation, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.183, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

• Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?' Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.

  Nick Hornby

  Fun, Lying, Writing

  6 Copy quote

• A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.

  Nick Hornby

  Death, Sorry, Fighting

  8 Copy quote

• It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

  Nick Hornby

  Turkeys, Miracle, And Love

  4 Copy quote

• In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Cry, Partners

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

  4 Copy quote

• Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

  Nick Hornby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

  4 Copy quote

Page 4 of 10

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin