Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Help
  • Me
  • Said

• I like to get to bed with a clear head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Like
  • Clear
  • Bed

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Exercise

• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Said
  • Employees

• A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Said
  • Economy
  • Bank

• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Sometimes
  • Young
  • Old

• I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Know
  • Said

• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Look
  • Said

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Sometimes
  • Down
  • Walk

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Nice

• My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Age
  • Sometimes
  • First

• The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Hands
  • Said
  • Rich

• I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Job
  • See

• I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Darkness

• Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Time
  • Different
  • Inspired

• My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Sometimes
  • Said
  • Bed