Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Man
  • Star

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Horse
  • Books
  • Racing

• I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Feel
  • Back
  • Go

• But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Winning
  • Things

• Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Trust
  • Body
  • Better

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Like
  • Couple
  • Movies

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • End
  • Yourself

• Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Day

• I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Know
  • Me
  • New

• I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Sleep
  • Partner

• Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Failure
  • Guarantee
  • Pessimism

• The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Truth
  • Courage
  • Acceptance

• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Wonder
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• I would like for the offense to look good, but that's not going to be easy against one of the best defenses in the league that I've gone against, ... It will kind of depend on how the game goes for us, but our game plan would be roughly a third, a third and a third.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Player

• Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

  

  Dennis Franz
  • Christmas
  • Chicago

• No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Chicago
  • Differences
  • Manners