Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
Rainbow Rowell -
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Maajid Nawaz -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
Karl Jaspers -
It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
Caitlin Stasey -
I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
Dak Prescott -
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown -
I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
Nazanin Boniadi -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
Naval Ravikant -
It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin -
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
Quincy Jones -
Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
Victor LaValle -
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
Jack Horner -
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
Barbra Streisand
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
Maira Kalman -
If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.
Chris Van Allsburg -
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck -
I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.
Bruno Tonioli -
When the iron is hot, strike.
John Heywood -
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
Vladimir Nabokov