Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Golf

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
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  • Stand

• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Kind

• You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Best
  • Always

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Me
  • Cup

• You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • You
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • God
  • Live
  • Marriage

• We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Family
  • Together

• When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Open

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Men
  • Real

• I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T.V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Sick
  • Garden

• I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

  

  Charles Gwathmey
  • Fashion
  • Quality
  • Environment

• 'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016

  

  Samantha Bee

• To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Know
  • Treasure

• Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

  

  Vissarion Belinsky
  • Book
  • Fate
  • Library

• We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Fate