Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.Vladimir Nabokov
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
Barton Gellman -
I have to be seen to be believed.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
Ian Williams Battles -
I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
Uday Kiran -
A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
Jack Lowden -
I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
Aaliyah
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
Cameron Mackintosh -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler -
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright -
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May -
A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
Natalie Wood -
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
Samantha Power
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
Sam Rockwell -
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West -
TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
Mads Mikkelsen -
You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
Tarsem Singh -
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch -
Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Right now you are in a completely different reality than you were 10 seconds ago.
Bentinho -
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Arthur Koestler -
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
James A. Garfield -
During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.
Clay Matthews III -
Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.
M. F. K. Fisher -
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
Vladimir Nabokov