Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.
Vladimir Nabokov
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold
Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
J. D. Pardo
What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
Flavor Flav
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.
Ali Smith
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Ben Okri
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.
Vladimir Nabokov
