Nabokov Word In Quotes

#1. When you get to be my age, you gain a heightened awareness of time . . . how limited it is, and you tend to move toward social interactions that are meaningful and away from negative, trivial people who are downright toxic.

Sarah Jo Smith

#2. Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times ... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. I have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. According to Ruth, Nabokov changed the way she read and wrote: "He used words to paint pictures. Even today, when I read, I notice with pleasure when an author has chosen a particular word, a particular place, for the picture it will convey to the reader." Ruth remembers

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#6. For better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

Ratan Tata

#8. We can step into uncharted territory and relax with the groundlessness of our situation; [we can] dissolve the dualistic tension between us and them, this and that, good and bad, by inviting in what we usually avoid. My teacher described this as leaning into the sharp points.

Pema Chodron

#9. Anybody with a functioning brain cannot not know that something is wrong.

Barbara Demick

#10. One last word are you quite quite ure that - well not tomorrow of course and not after tomorrow but - well - some day any day you will not come to live with me I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries if you give me that microscopic hope.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. The Girl Scout's motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as - well, never mind what. My duty is - to be useful. I am a friend to male animals. I am cheerful. I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in thought, word, and deed.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Gregory Bateson

#13. The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

Danny Elfman

#14. Oh, 'impressed' is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon gives one, I imagine (or rather my projected self imagines), the most remarkable romantic thrill ever experienced in the history of discovery.

Vladimir Nabokov

#15. I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them. Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Zadie Smith

#18. The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#19. You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

Shirley Maclaine

#20. You either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive ...

John Geddes

#21. While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.

Slick Rick

#22. It's going to happen whether you like it or not," he said quietly.
The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. "What's that?"
"Change," Rich said. "It's inevitable.

Danika Stone