Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
D. J. MacHale -
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Jack Kemp -
It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
Tamra Davis -
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
Joanne Rowling -
No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
Patrice Leconte -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
Pat Robertson -
I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
Yang Lan -
We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
D. B. Weiss -
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes -
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint Augustine -
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian -
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson -
From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
Nancy Reagan -
I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
Harold Ramis -
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann -
I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.
Jason Derulo -
I've been so fortunate to work with so many successful women who are moms as well.
Lily Collins -
Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
Joe Gibbs -
Even though they are such fantastical characters and situations, it's still a man trying to figure it out. These motifs of messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes, these journeys are things that we deal with in our day to day.
Keanu Reeves -
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov