Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

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• I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.

  

  Najib Razak
  • High
  • Think
  • Technology

• The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Passion

• I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

  

  Iain Dowie
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Training

• The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Salvation

• Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing our small kids in Sabra and Chatila. Where is Alexander Haig?

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Planning

• I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Death

• Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Practice

• I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Practice

• I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Relationship

• The darkness

  

  R. S. Thomas

• I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Camera

• I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

  

  Carlos Delgado
  • Political
  • Player
  • Baseball

• I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Littles

• We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Together
  • Community
  • Events

• Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win

  

  Erin Brockovich
  • Winning
  • Struggle
  • Perseverance

• And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Keys
  • Mines
  • Pockets