Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

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• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learn

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • First
  • Four
  • My Own

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Movie
  • Think
  • House

• I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Men
  • Mad

• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Together
  • Single

• More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • May
  • History

• I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.

  

  Blake Farenthold

• Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • Literature

• Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • May
  • Miserable