Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
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• The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

  

  Jack Ma
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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
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• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
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• I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

  

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• Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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  • Year

• I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
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• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

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• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
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• I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

  

  John le Carre
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• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.

  

  Cold Cave
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• I never, nor will I, put another person down to feel better about myself. I will live and die by what I do, not what anyone else thinks about me.

  

  Carlos Mencia
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• I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
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• while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Space
  • Feels
  • Poet