Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

Vladimir Nabokov

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• American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • Band
  • Brilliant

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Home
  • Night

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Study

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Feel
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• Adequacy is sufficient.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Sufficient
  • Adequacy

• Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Today
  • Light
  • Sports

• When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Done
  • Career
  • Want

• We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Humanity

• Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Home

• I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.

  

  Babatunde Olatunji
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Peace

• You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

  

  Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
  • Giving

• In high school, I tried to cook dinner for a girl, and it was horrific. It was at her house. I was trying to make pork chops with my mom's recipe, just trying to be Mr. Awesome, like, 'Yeah, I cook, too.' But I just burned everything. There was smoke everywhere.

  

  Kyle Bornheimer
  • Trying
  • School
  • High

• I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Trying
  • Simplicity

• Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Trying
  • Individual
  • Combination