Nick Hornby Quotes

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

You can go out and hate everybody, hate your age, and hate all the things you don't have but it will show; you have the face you deserve.

Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe. “If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!

As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.