Nabokov Quote by Vladimir Nabokov Download Open image ““ 'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.' ”” — Vladimir Nabokov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nabokov
“By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“(Side note: I heard that dentist call one of his assistants a bitch one time, so I have zero regrets about vomiting all over… — Matt Bellassai Copy Share Image
“Throw up" Victor said. Bacteria, he believed, would run up his arms and gain access to his brain through his ear canals. "Vomit. Puke.… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
“I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“throw up his hands and say, ‘Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.’ ” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens.” — Zoe Trope Copy Share Image
“I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother” — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I am cursed with a terminal case of curiosity," he said. "I am jealous, selfish, acquisitive, territorial and possessive. I have a terrible temper,… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“Can we at least avoid the cannibals? I prefer not to vomit when screaming for my life.” — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
“There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It is indeed a tricky name. It is often misspelt, because the eye tends to regard the "a" of the first syllable as a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
After so many attempts to mount a musical version of 'Lolita,' the project was well and truly dead by the summer of 1971. Chief… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it,… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image