Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Vladimir Nabokov

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• Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Sound
  • Laughter

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • People
  • Job
  • Couple

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Positive
  • Event
  • Mobile

• The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Best

• When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Know
  • Hair

• And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Want
  • Things
  • Leave

• There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Question
  • See

• Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Actors

• There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Failure
  • Darkness

• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Night
  • Baby
  • Golf

• For youngsters to see just modern or ballet or hip-hop is wrong. I want them to see a rich variety.

  

  Garth Fagan
  • See
  • Variety
  • Youngsters

• When it comes to a question of the safety of our troops, I don't think we should have any question at all. For our members to move a piece of legislation, they have to have confidence that we do no harm, that we actually make sure that our troops are safe.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Question
  • Confidence
  • Safety

• As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.

  

  Anna Halprin
  • Wisdom
  • Dance
  • Expression

• As we have already glimpsed and will continue to discover, we are able to expand our awareness beyond the perceived limitations of our own person and access the dimensions of a transpersonal consciousness. As we open ourselves to the realization of the in-formed universe, this shift in our collective awareness heralds a resolution of the schisms that have divided us for so long—both among and within us.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Consciousness
  • Discover
  • Awareness

• Every player, every coach doesn't always see eye to eye.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Player
  • Eye
  • Coaches

• How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Individual
  • Consciousness
  • Comparison