More - Nora Ephron Quotes

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Nora Ephron

 Advice American Author

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever after'' and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.

Nora Ephron

 Cinema

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

 American Author

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is "knowing what your uterus looks like."

Nora Ephron

 

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

Nora Ephron

 

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

Nora Ephron

 American Author Difficulty

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

Nora Ephron

 American Author Mystery

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

 American Author

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Nora Ephron

 American Author

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

Nora Ephron

 American Author