Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley -
I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
Randy Couture -
Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole -
Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
Obie Trice
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You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
Laura Wilkinson -
My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
Jack Dangermond -
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Quentin Tarantino -
I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
Patrick Swayze -
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
Nathan Myhrvold
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
Orison Swett Marden -
My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
Iggy Azalea -
I lost my confidence.
Pat Summitt -
Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
J. G. Ballard -
Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
Orison Swett Marden
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I can’t die, he most famously liked to say. It would ruin my image.
Jack LaLanne -
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
Plato -
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
Delmore Schwartz -
I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.
Dita Von Teese -
Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they are being used. Allow them to discover you.
K Callan -
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
Vladimir Nabokov