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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977

Topics

Light Darkness Common Sense Rocks Us

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

Doctor Insurance Want Washington

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

Music Writing Always Been Just Fan

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith

Time Interesting You Know Minds

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Me You Artist Want Box Anything

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Nothing Never Psychology Logical

You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'

Live Thinking You Will Never Write

My friends and I started that motto early in high school - that attitude, that mentality - from way back then: Want to go to Stanford? Why not? Want to play in the NBA? Why not?

Russell Westbrook

Attitude Motto School High School Go

I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.

Girl Dress Gender You Know Guy

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

Beginning Think You Young Always

We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA's carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.

Change Thankful Health Step Weather

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

Success Future Business Time Start

We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It's a tough grind that you have to go through that people don't understand.

Chauncey Billups

Eyes People Tough Process You Grind

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