Nan Quotes: top 98 famous quotes about Nan

Nan Quotes & Sayings

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You can't run from your roots. — Stewart O'Nan

This was Jonan's boat. She had helped Nan Seller dose his entire crew against the annual diarrhea outbreak known as the winter runs — Sarah Zettel

It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully. — Nan Aron

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — Nan Goldin

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign. — Nan Fairbrother

Don't assume I'm bluffing Nan. Because this time you've fucked with something I care about. This affects me, so listen and shut the hell up — Abbi Glines

If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what. — Nan Goldin

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use. — Nan Fairbrother

Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. — Stewart O'Nan

Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together. — Wm. Paul Young

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly. — Kate Reardon

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach). — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you. — Nan Kempner

I wouldn't miss the opening of a door. — Nan Kempner

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus. — Stewart O'Nan

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost. — Nan Goldin

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old? — Stewart O'Nan

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets. — Stewart O'Nan

It's not rocket science, Nan. You show someone they matter to you - do whatever it takes to show that. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level. — Nan Shepherd

I think the wrong things are kept private — Nan Goldin

I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons. — Nicolas Ghesquiere

It's a grand thing, to get leave to live — Nan Shepherd

What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely. — Nan Shepherd

People who are winning at working don't ignore the problems they encounter. — Nan S. Russell

To know, that is, with the knowledge that is a process of living. — Nan Shepherd

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. — Nan Fairbrother

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. — Nan Fairbrother

I'm drunk when it comes to clothes. — Nan Kempner

He was a Stark of Winterfell, and who can say? Mayhaps his name was Brandon. Mayhaps he slept in this very bed in this very room — George R R Martin

Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera. — Nan Kempner

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept. — Nan Hayworth

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be. — Stewart O'Nan

Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis. — Nan Aron

Susan Boynton mug. "I will," Birdie said, smiling. "Haven't you already read this?" he asked, — Nan Rossiter

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ... — Nan Fairbrother

My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again ... — Steve Williams

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them. — Nan Goldin

My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls. — Jess Glynne

Leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. — Nan Fairbrother

Where there is life, Nan used to say, there is hope. — Sabaa Tahir

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures. — Nan Fairbrother

I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going. — Nan Kempner

Am I such a slave as that? Dependent on a man to complete me! I thought I couldn't be anything without him- I can be my own creator! — Nan Shepherd

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote. — Nan Hayworth

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. — Nan Fairbrother

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact. — Stewart O'Nan

Nan was a sobbing mess. As mean as she was my heart broke for her. — Abbi Glines

Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort. — Nan Aron

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends. — Nan Goldin

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out. — Stewart O'Nan

She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!". — Russell Howard

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. — Stewart O'Nan

We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense. — Nan Hayworth

Happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry. — Nan Fairbrother

I wanted not to give a shit that Nan was upset. She needed to grow the fuck up and realize she wasn't the only person on the planet. — Abbi Glines

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex. — Nan Goldin

I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead. — Jimmy Carr

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief. — Jamie Redknapp

These tracks give to winter hill walking a distinctive pleasure. One is companioned, though not in time. — Nan Shepherd

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit. — Nan Goldin

I'm sorry, Nan," said Steve. "But I have to kill you." "That's a shame, dear. Mind if I finish my tea first? — Lee Moan

Nan always said that as long as there is life, there is hope. — Sabaa Tahir

I've always been a big reader. — Stewart O'Nan

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do. — Nan Hayworth

I spend way more than I should ... and way less than I want. — Nan Kempner

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping. — Stewart O'Nan

The urgent crowds out the essential. — Nan Fairbrother

Thinking of the little creature dying in her — Nan Sweet

I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all! — Nan Little

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better. — Nan Goldin

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. — Sarah Waters

Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons. — Nan Shepherd

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women
all people, finally
complicated? — Stewart O'Nan

Mack likes to say that they all got their good looks from him, ... cuz Nan still has hers. — Wm. Paul Young

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for. — Nan Fairbrother

She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here ... but God, I wanted her to. — Abbi Glines

We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving? — Nan Fairbrother

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default. — Nan Hayworth

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts. — Nan Robertson

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. — Stewart O'Nan

The best part of a party is getting dressed to go. — Nan Kempner

In the wall there are many doors. Be patient, search with diligence, for one will open to your key. And oh, the land beyond is very fair. — Nan Gilbert

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited. — Nan Fairbrother

Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you. Nan-The Otherside — Ashley Jeffery

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again. — Stewart O'Nan

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader. — Stewart O'Nan

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa? — Stewart O'Nan

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love? — Stewart O'Nan

We were watching telly the night Nan burnt the house down. — Celine Kiernan

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected ... — Nan Fairbrother

NaN isn't equal to anything, not even itself, so, — Eric Freeman

Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. — Nan Fairbrother

In September dawns I hardly breathe - I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it. — Nan Shepherd

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story. — Nan Fairbrother

Anyone who says it's easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job. — Nan McCarthy

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book. — Stewart O'Nan