Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
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I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.
