Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
Yahya Jammeh -
In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
Kamisese Mara -
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
Ram Charan -
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
Gary Shteyngart
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
Many are called but few get up.
Oliver Herford -
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
Camille Claudel -
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins -
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
Zach Anner -
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
Barney Ross -
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
Imtiaz Ali -
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
Dambisa Moyo -
Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries -
You can grow apart from people very quickly.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
Eleanor Mondale -
There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy -
Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.
Future -
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Vladimir Nabokov