The best Quotes by Nora Ephron

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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

Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person.

Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.

Annie Reed: "Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...-"
Becky: "A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie."

Annie, when you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.

Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you.

There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.

It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk.

All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband.

When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends.

What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.

You look like a normal person but actually you are the angel of death.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

I am a Gemini. Which means that there's two very different sides of me.

I went to a costume party dressed as a chicken and hooked up with a girl dressed as an egg.

Long story short:
The chicken.

Alabamians don't tell you to wait before rushing a decision… they say "don't count your chickens before they hatch."

I'm KFC baby - you don't mess with the Colonel's recipe!

Girls, if he only wants your breasts, legs, and thighs - send him to KFC.