Misattributed Vladimir Nabokov Quotes & Sayings

In the first act get your principal character up a tree; in the second act, throw stones at him; in the third, get him down gracefully. — Anonymous

[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing." — Slash

It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral and political and economic force, which Europe is because it shares many of our values and demonstrates them around the world. But it has to have the military power that goes with that as well. — Ashton Carter

The Lion, the Beast, the Beat. — Grace Potter

The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead. — A.D. Posey

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again. — John Le Carre

Michael is not only my friend, he's my family. — Emmanuel Lewis

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. — Logan Pearsall Smith

It is only through difference that progress can be made. What threatens us right now is probably what we may call over-communication
that is, the tendency to know exactly in one point of the world what is going on in all other parts of the world. In order for a culture to be really itself and to produce something, the culture and its members must be convinced of their originality and even, to some extent, of their superiority over the others; it is only under conditions of under-communication that it can produce anything. We are now threatened with the prospect of our being only consumers, able to consume anything from any point in the world and from any culture, but of losing all originality. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force — Anne Lamott

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats. — Marianne Williamson

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health. — William Foege