A Quote by Nora Ephron

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
American - Author
May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.... You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

Nora Ephron

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

Leonard Cohen

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

Theodore Sturgeon

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Orson Scott Card

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there's no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we've lost, we will forever be distracted with possessions and trinkets and title.

Harry Belafonte

Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the 'invisible worlds' beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of your life - from spirituality and health to work and relationships.

Sandra Ingerman

He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told. I decided on the slightly less dangerous path. I went to retrieve my sister

Rick Riordan

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Marianne Williamson

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Louise Bernikow

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

Charles Dickens

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

John Edgar Wideman

Trying to keep up is the ultimate act of uncoolness. And so I still retrieve not one but two daily newspapers from the driveway.

Steve Rushin

The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.

Marianne Williamson

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.