Vladimir Nabokov Famous Quotes
"I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
"My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Vladimir Nabokov Quotations
"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot."
Italian Proverb
"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh."
Patricia Hitchcock
"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.'"
Dan Parker
"The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'"
Richard
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
George Whitehead
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Heywood Broun
"As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are."
Joseph Farrell
"A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that."
B A Billingsly
"By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists."
M C Escher
"Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours."
Swedish Proverb