Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
Sam Crawford -
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple -
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Caitlin Flanagan -
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson -
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
A. James Clark
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu -
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
Sam Graves -
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
Larry Dixon -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
R. A. Salvatore -
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar -
The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
Said Nursi -
I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
Frances Beinecke
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
Baba Kalyani -
I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
Martin Yan -
Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
Hedy Lamarr -
If I had a job pitching for the Giants, I probably wouldn't be manning my own Twitter account.
Wiley Wiggins -
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.
Vladimir Nabokov