Nora Ephron Quotes

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.

I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like. It's a big thing for me, just having the freedom to be able to do that.

We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

Our stuff is made strictly for fun. We're not out to give a message.

I'm someone who likes to live it up.

It's all right to have fun.

If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.

Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

I rented Ghostbusters, my all-time favorite inspirational movie. I picked up some microwave, popcorn, a KitKat, a bag of bite-sized Reese's peanut butter cups, and a box of instant hot chocolate with marshmallows. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?