Vladmir Nabokov Quotes

#1. Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. You only have one chance for a first impression.

Judy Sheindlin

#3. Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.

David Rose

#4. Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[ ... ]

David Eddings

#5. Control your destiny or somebody will.

Jack Welch

#6. Damn, the good words are all asterisked!"

"The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest!

Pawan Mishra

#7. You talk like a book.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'

Joe Torre

#10. At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

Hugh Bonneville

#11. It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

Arthur Golden

#12. I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

Charlie Munger

#13. Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

James Luther Adams