Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

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• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Small
  • Star

• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Value
  • Production
  • YouTube

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Think

• If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Kind
  • Start

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Play

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • America
  • True
  • Society

• I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • May
  • Beautiful

• I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Father
  • Lies

• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Ability
  • Been

• I always liked spy stories.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Always
  • Liked
  • Spy

• My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Work
  • Family
  • Doctor

• So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Couple
  • Years
  • Flight

• The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Time
  • Anxiety
  • Late

• I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and voices are there when you need them, when you're ready to find them, whether in their time or after.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Music
  • Beauty
  • Late

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

  

  Andrew Jackson Davis
  • Theory
  • Error
  • Investigation

• If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Remember
  • Suffering
  • Disappear

• Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Late