Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
  • Feel
  • Pressure

• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Alone

• It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Being
  • Class
  • Luxury

• Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Die
  • Never
  • Berlin

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend...a good friend who trusted you...was more than enough.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Good
  • She
  • True

• Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Home
  • Charity

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  Benjamin Franklin
  • Strong

• You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

  

  Lindsay Duncan

• You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Life

• My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.

  

  James Woods
  • Live
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• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Trying
  • Song

• I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.

  

  James Gray

• As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • Music
  • Legacy

• A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Quality

• I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

  

  Steven Cojocaru
  • Way
  • Modern
  • Classy

• The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • Society
  • Culture

• I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov