Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

  

  Barney Frank
  • America
  • True
  • King

• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Jazz

• I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Man
  • Strength
  • Percent

• I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Silly
  • Childish

• I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Trump

• The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Mind
  • Tax
  • Permanent

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Time
  • Children

• Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • World
  • Health
  • Challenge

• The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Opportunity

• Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we can do anything we like. It is just complete crap.

  

  James Spithill

• Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Enemy

• I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People
  • Respect
  • Smart

• The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Respect
  • Catholic

• A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Changed

• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov