Nabokov Speak Memory Quotes

#1. The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Speak, Memory: A Memoir

Sheldon Solomon

#2. Speak, Memory is strictly autobiographic. There is nothing autobiographic in Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

Peter Schjeldahl

#4. I don't want to be safe," he said. "I want to be with you

Cassandra Clare

#5. I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

Michael Chabon

#6. No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body ... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries.

Ken Loach

#7. Smugly on the other side of Kelly, our pianist, who'd opted

Tammara Webber

#8. In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

David Halberstam

#9. The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

Mikhail Bakunin

#10. A brick layer, lays bricks ... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

Michael Chiklis

#11. Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.

Jonathan Maberry