Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
-
I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
-
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
-
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
-
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
-
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
-
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
-
Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
-
I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
-
My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
-
When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
-
I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
-
I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
-
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
-
To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
-
When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
-
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
-
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
-
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
-
At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
-
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
-
After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.
-
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
-
In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.
