Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• I find that men are far more vain than women.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Men
  • Women
  • Find

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Model

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • America
  • Think
  • Strong

• You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Good
  • Work
  • Taking Risks

• A war between Europeans is a civil war.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Between
  • Civil War

• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Play
  • Philosophy
  • Parent

• Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Country
  • Energy

• People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Guilty

• Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Like
  • Superhero
  • Often

• Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

  

  James Lankford
  • Different
  • Color

• The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Eyes

• I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Dream
  • Journey
  • Professional

• It's an unfair position, so you can do one of two things: just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or just learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Up

• All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Eye
  • Color
  • Made