Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.Vladimir Nabokov
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
Tasha Smith -
My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
Tamora Pierce -
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
Magdalena Neuner -
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
Carli Lloyd -
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
Sam Abell -
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson -
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
Yoko Ono -
I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
Karrie Webb -
Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
Sabine Lisicki
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed -
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
Adam Brody -
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
Mike Trout -
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset.
Charles Dickens -
My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is.
Ken Liu -
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov