The Eye Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

#1. Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

Adrienne Rich

#2. Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.

Jeffrey Fry

#3. The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind ...

Octavia E. Butler

#4. The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

Margot Adler

#5. How do women all know what to do with babies? It's like they have their own special kind of sorcery.

Rae Carson

#6. I never thought ... that someone liked me ... not like a demon ... not like a half-demon ... not even like human ... just like ... just like me! -Inuyasha

Rumiko Takahashi

#7. Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

Zooey Deschanel

#9. Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. We really should get some X-rays," the EMT said.
"You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts," I said to the EMT.

Darynda Jones

#12. It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him.

Peter Drucker

#13. Goodbye, Dr Goldstein.' I start to walk away, then stop and turn. 'Oh, and for the record my name's Charlotte.' And turning back, I keep on walking. Somehow I don't think that's a name he's going to forget in a hurry.

Alexandra Potter

#14. There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That's why it's so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds.

Susan Isaacs

#15. I swear I am happy. I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch, to scrutinize oneself and others, to be nothing but a big, slightly vitreous, somewhat bloodshot, unblinking eye. I swear that this is happiness.

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. She ducked her head, studying his fingers, spreading them against her own, comparing their lengths. His hand dwarfed hers.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#19. I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.

Brian Spellman

#20. Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.

Vladimir Nabokov