Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

Vladimir Nabokov

• Adults
• Premature
• Fierceness

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• As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

  

  T-Pain
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Coffee
  • Greatness

• I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

  

  Donald Wolfit

• I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Family
  • Relationship

• There are few signs in a soul's state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true- the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • True

• We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Light
  • Feel
  • Safe

• Well, I think we're getting what we want, we're getting the information that's in it and getting the reasons why there's a big difference between the attorney general and the FBI director and that's the main thrust of our hearing and everything else to find out why there's this big difference and so the committee knows, the Congress knows and the American people know.

  

  Dan Burton
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Four
  • Great Beatles

• Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Art
  • Pleasure
  • Doe

• You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • True

• I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Habit

• Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Problem

• He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Stupid
  • Heartless

• Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Information

• It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Real
  • Respect

• Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Writing
  • Creative
  • Adults

• Even as he looks upon your face, masked with flesh so rotten it’s gone charcoal black, he calls you an angel. This is a first. You’ve been called a god for your power and you’ve been called the devil for your fierceness, but you’ve never been called an angel for your services.

  

  Amerie
  • Power
  • Angel
  • Fierceness

• I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

  

  Suraj Sharma
  • Movies
  • Camera
  • Safer

• We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Adults
  • Premature
  • Fierceness