“I hate time. It never does what you want it to.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“It seems to make a difference to some girls. If you say something that isn't sexist to the right sort ofgirl, she likes you more. Say one of your mates is going on about how all girls are stupid, and you say 'not all girls are stupid,' then it can make you look good. There have to be girls listening, though, obviously. Otherwise it's a waste of time.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything else apart from being with Alicia, and the only time I felt like I was where I wanted to be was when I was with her. I mean, that may as well be love, mightn't it?”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“Ponekad kondomi stvarno ali stvarno sprečavaju začeće. Ukoliko ste lik koji ih uvek nosi sa sobom onda niko neće hteti sa vama da spava.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“Seeing as he wasn’t very bright, I was pretty sure that he was going to be good at fighting.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
Nick Hornby
Born place: in Redhill, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
Born date April 17, 1957
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“I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)”
― Dorothy Allison, quote from Bastard Out of Carolina
“Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her."
"Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.”
― Zadie Smith, quote from White Teeth
“There are other things I'd rather do when I'm alone with you."
Time to step off the edge. "Then do them.”
― Veronica Rossi, quote from Under the Never Sky
“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from The Waves
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, quote from Outliers: The Story of Success
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