Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Book
  • Earth

• Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Courage

• I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Moments

• Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Love
  • Protect
  • Comfort

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?

  

  Viktor Orban
  • You
  • Without
  • Consent

• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Logic

• There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Many
  • Dressing
  • Too

• All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Age

• I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • World
  • Music
  • Fear

• On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I hate musicals. There, I said it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Hate
  • Said
  • Musicals

• One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Moral
  • Author

• It was men’s ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men

• Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.

  

  Karl Popper
  • World
  • Men
  • May

• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Long
  • America

• Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Popular
  • Share
  • Bear

• I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • Job
  • Remember

• I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Money
  • Sorry

• I, Robert Joseph Dole, do solemnly swear... Sorry. Wrong speech.

  

  Bob Dole
  • Sorry

• Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Sorry
  • Cry
  • Deceived