382 Quotes by David Nicholls

Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy

What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.