Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
-
Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
-
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
-
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
-
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
-
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
-
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
-
I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
-
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
-
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
-
Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
-
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
-
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
-
I'm not cynical.
-
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
-
It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.
-
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
-
Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
-
Hope is not a strategy.
-
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
