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

• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Restaurant

• 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

• strong

  

  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
  • Real
  • Game

• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  • Small

• We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

  

  Alex Scarrow
  • Born
  • Dead
  • Faster

• Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.

  

  Sue Gardner
  • Internet
  • Censorship
  • Consumption

• There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

  

  Clifford Stoll
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

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

  

  Vladimir Nabokov