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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Vladimir Nabokov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Up Motion Stay Only Like While

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

Baseball College America You Tennis

The live performance aspect of shooting a multicamera sitcom is wonderful. You have that instant audience reaction.

Live Performance You Reaction Sitcom

The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.

Family Friends And Family Me Friends

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Me Emotions Scary Big Least Really

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

Food Grass Eat Hungry Pigs Source

'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are even cattier. But I do think that it's a total different world, and it can't compare.

World Reputation Think Know Pageant

In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

Dean Bakopoulos

Honesty Coffee Food Service Beer Me

I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.

Christopher Moore

Knowledge Questions Body I Can Never

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

Feet Always Piano Away Like About

When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.

Family Car Empathy Story Language

Monsters aren't as scary if you start shining lights on them.

Start You Lights Scary Monsters

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

William S. Burroughs

Youth Fate Idiot Down Will Fountain

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