Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev -
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie
-
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
Vincent Cassel -
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson -
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
-
My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
Nadine Velazquez -
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
Bashar al-Assad -
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
Gary Shteyngart -
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
Raekwon -
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine -
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Escher
-
Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
Weird Al Yankovic -
I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.
Mackenzie Davis -
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
George Eliot -
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green -
Cats will outsmart dogs every time.
John Grogan -
I confess, I do not believe in time.
Vladimir Nabokov