Top 12 Vladimir Nabokov Ada Or Ardor Quotes
#1. My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.
Liberty Ross
#2. There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.
Selenis Leyva
#3. As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.
Tiffany Madison
#4. Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms
and to hold on to it
that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur
Marc Levy
#5. Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
Quentin Crisp
#6. I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.
William S. Burroughs
#7. Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
Mark Haddon
#8. The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
E.F. Schumacher
#9. Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#10. When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
Jay Maisel
#11. The sudden screaming of women woke Tuco, who might have gone unnoticed had he lain quietly beneath the stone lip of the well.
Brian Fox
#12. The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
Gijs De Vries
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