Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

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• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Like
  • Say
  • Thanks

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Real
  • Action
  • Value

• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Writing
  • Kid
  • Even

• I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Feel
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Trying
  • Jerk
  • Snob

• While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • Great
  • Eyes

• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Quality
  • Nothing
  • Replace

• I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Bisexual

• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Thought

• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • World
  • Mind
  • Bear

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Legal

• Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Legal
  • Bitcoin

• I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Guy

• Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Beautiful
  • Water
  • Powerful

• Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Great
  • Boat

• I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Want
  • Hungry

• A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.

  

  William Petersen
  • Smart
  • Knows
  • Persons

• His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Fall
  • Struggle
  • Failing