Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
-
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
-
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
-
Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
-
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
-
We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
-
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
-
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
-
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
-
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
-
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
-
Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
-
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
-
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
-
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
-
Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
-
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
-
You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.
-
I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.
-
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
-
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
