Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
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I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.
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Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.
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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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What does God need with a starship?
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I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.
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I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.
