Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
Nate Parker -
Metaphysics is a science.
Gabriel Marcel -
I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
LaToya Jackson -
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu -
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
Sabrina Carpenter
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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
W. G. Sebald -
My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.
Christina Aguilera -
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
Alan Paton -
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
Zadie Smith -
Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Barack Obama
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In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.
Nivin Pauly -
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
Richard Owen -
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.
Sigmund Freud -
The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
Judy Blume -
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
Seth Lloyd