Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop -
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
Orlando Bloom -
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
Victoria Osteen -
The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
Damian Woetzel -
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
Vince Gill -
In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
Ingrid Betancourt
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
Rachel Kushner -
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
Saint Patrick -
I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
Calvin Johnson -
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
Washed Out
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
Naval Ravikant -
I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
Cara Delevingne -
When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
Tamara Tunie -
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells -
On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard -
Every morning you get up, risk starts.
Joe Kaeser -
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.
Mariella Frostrup -
My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Bill Vaughan -
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
Vladimir Nabokov