Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Technology

• For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Moment

• I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Remember

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Differences
  • Pie
  • Blur

• Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Book
  • Picture
  • Memories

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Want
  • Cold

• I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Marriage

• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Expect

• Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animals
  • Cousins
  • Zoo

• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil

• There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Model
  • Rules

• I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • World
  • Love
  • Think

• Originality is dangerous.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dangerous
  • Originality

• I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fear
  • Idea
  • Television

• I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

  

  Peter Mayhew
  • Time
  • Character

• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Black
  • Spanish

• Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Why
  • May
  • Soul

• And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • May
  • Share
  • Immortality