Nabokovs Butterflies Quotes & Sayings

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question. — Rajneesh

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? — Ogden Nash

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. — Dan Wells

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. — Susan B. Anthony

Izz spoke with a magnanimous abandonment of herself to the situation; she could not be - no woman with a heart bigger than a hazel-nut could be - antagonistic to Tess in her presence, the influence which she exercised over those of her own sex being of a warmth and strength quite unusual, curiously overpowering the less worthy feminine feelings of spite and rivalry. — Thomas Hardy

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way. — Alana Haim

...he had impressed her as a man delightfully open to suggestion, with an imagination large enough to find time, even in the depths of despair, for the important things in life, those accidents without which our existence was little more than a schedule of dry routines. — Matthew Thomas

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings. — Emanuel Swedenborg

We're so selfish that we talk about "after the war" and look forward to new clothes and shoes, when actually we should be saving every penny to help others when the war is over, to salvage whatever we can. — Anne Frank

I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down. — George Strait

To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task. — Paulo Coelho

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see. — Berenice Abbott

Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.' — Curtis Jackson