Nora Ephron Quotes

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

No tummy showing, no cleavage, no leg show - those were the rules laid down by my folks! But yeah, I am the original thong girl in India.

A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

There was a rule at Rangers, going back to the 1950s, that players needed to turn up for every training session dressed in a suit and tie. I was a teenager. You'd have been lucky to see me in a jacket even on a Sunday - it just wasn't my style.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

I used to go to school in heels every day. I thought I was a little grown woman.

The more conservative you dress, the more you can get away with.

You don't wear leather bucket hats in Vegas.

I want to break down the wall of, you know, you have to put on a jacket and tie, and you have to act a certain way, and you have to know how to order the right kind of wine. All these things have suddenly been built up around jazz and the way it's presented.

Oh, in high school, I wore a uniform!

We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

I was at Plaza Athénée, where a jacket and tie was required. Andy Warhol came with his turtleneck, because he was always wearing a turtleneck, with a tie over it, and we gave him a jacket - so he had a jacket and tie over the turtleneck. It was pretty cool.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

Can I wear your blazer?