Norah Silverberg Quotes

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning. ~ Rachel Cohn

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. ~ Rachel Cohn

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on. ~ Norah Vincent

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint. ~ Norah O'Donnell

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer? ~ Norah Vincent

We are born by accident into a purely random universe. ~ Robert Silverberg

(Sam) "Wait a minute … there are others like you?"
He offered her his best grin, the one the ladies loved. "Honey, there's no one like me. ~ Norah Wilson

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me. ~ Norah Jones

...as the old proverb said, The falling out of faithful friends is the renewal of love. ~ Norah Lofts

If I am just as stupid when I am twenty as I was when I was two, if I am just as stupid when I am a hundred as I was when I was fifty, then I am not doing my job. I am occupying space and time to no purpose, and I might just as well have been a lump of rock. ~ Robert Silverberg

The look he shot her was incredulous in the extreme. "You have a filing system for your shoes? ~ Norah Wilson

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand. ~ Rachel Cohn

Your limitations create your sound. ~ Norah Jones

I was never mean to him, but I participated heartily when the guys teased him. ~ Norah Vincent

There are other themes for poetry besides immersion in the Will, my friends. The love of person for person, the joy of defending one's home, the wonder of standing naked beneath the fiery stars - " The invader laughed. "Can it be that Earth fell so swiftly because its only poets were poets of acquiescence to destiny? ~ Robert Silverberg

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake. ~ Norah Jones

Earth fell," said the Surgeon, "because the Will required us to atone for the sin our ancestors committed when they treated your ancestors like beasts. The quality of our poetry had nothing to do with it. ~ Robert Silverberg

She kissed him back with a fervor that betrayed her anxiety, her relief. Rolling her hips, she pressed her breasts into his chest, felt the thudding of his heart against hers. God, if she could crawl into him, it might just be close enough. ~ Norah Wilson

I wan to lie beside you and just listen to you breathe. When I've had a shitty day, I want to come home to you and lay my head in your lap and feel your hand on my face. ~ Norah Wilson

It was all she could do to get the words out before he crushed her in a bear hug. Twenty-four hours ago, she might have thought the gesture was intended as much for Ray's benefit as for hers, but she knew better now. This was real. It had to be. ~ Norah Wilson

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive. ~ Robert Silverberg

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas. ~ Norah Jones

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. ~ Norah Vincent

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. ~ Norah Jones

Growing up, my parents were healthy eaters and starting to run and compete when I was 13, I knew the need to focus on what you need to eat. I remember going to grocery store myself and picking up fresh fruit and knowing early on the right foods to fuel my body. ~ Norah O'Donnell

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately. ~ Robert Silverberg

few days, or even weeks." Weeks. "And now we beg, borrow or steal another vehicle and slip out of town?" "Bingo." Ray flipped the glove compartment open and dug around inside, extracting a flashlight, some maps and a first aid kit. "Though borrowing is out. We don't wanna lead men ~ Norah Wilson

Fate is a girl with scissors ~ Norah Labiner

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy. ~ Robert Silverberg

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music. ~ Laura Bell Bundy

I want to marry you because you're the one, Nita. Period." He pinned her with his gaze, fierce and outrageously blue. "I've never felt like this before. I want to lie beside you and just listen to you breathe. When I've had a shitty day, I want to come home to you and lay my head in your lap and feel your hands on my face. And when you've had a shitty day and it feels like one more straw is gonna break your back, I want to be there to carry the load for you. I want you to tell me your darkest fears, and be able to tell you mine. ~ Norah Wilson

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet. ~ Norah Jones