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

• A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • God
  • Friends
  • Universe

• 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

• Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence and all that other stuff.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • People
  • Character
  • Violence

• I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Music
  • Writing

• Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Worry
  • Jazz
  • Notes

• If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Action
  • Product

• 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