Feel Quotes

Everything matches black, especially black.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Everything Black Matches

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Cool Like Never

I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Food People Who

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Women Try Write

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Just Life My Life

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Great Know Will

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Men People Who

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Nora Ephron

Tags: People Am I Am

The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Best You Out

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Great Best Movies

Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

Nora Ephron

Tags: You Every Say

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

Tags: Men Who Only

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Nora Ephron

Tags: You People Your

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Women Get Which

If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

Nora Ephron

Tags: You Up Very

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Anger You More

I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Time About Because

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

Nora Ephron

Tags: People More Know

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

Nora Ephron

Tags: You People Think

I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece.

Nora Ephron

Tags: Work Great About