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. Nora Ephron liferealizerest Change image and share on social
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron bookchaptercut Change image and share on social
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. Nora Ephron bowlchilidrive Change image and share on social
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. Nora Ephron fantasylovemind Change image and share on social
'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it. Nora Ephron amazebuildempire share on social
I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. Nora Ephron backbasicbuy share on social
The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs. Nora Ephron bowlcookday share on social
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. Nora Ephron acceptancecarehead Change image and share on social
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 bananaherojoke Change image and share on social
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 comicdaylife Change image and share on social