Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
-
I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
-
If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
-
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
-
Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
-
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
-
I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
-
One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
-
If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
-
I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
-
I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.
-
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
-
Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
-
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
-
I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
-
We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
-
I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
-
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
-
Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.'
-
The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.
-
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
-
I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
-
Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.
