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Let's influence ourselves, let's influence others.
— Vladimir Raykov
The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]
— Vladimir Nabokov
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
— Vladimir Nabokov
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
— Vladimir Putin
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime.
— Vladimir Putin
The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
— Vladimir Nabokov
In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.
— Vladimir Putin
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.
— Vladimir Nabokov
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
— Vladimir Kramnik
Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us,
— Vladimir Putin
He began with the day's copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov
— Vladimir Nabokov
I am ready to give you all of my blood, if I had to - it's hard to explain - sounds flat - but that's how it is.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Then there's amortization,the deadliest of all;
amortization
of the heart and soul. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell
— Strobe Talbott
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
— Vladimir Putin
I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.
— Vladimir Putin
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[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.
— Vladimir Nabokov
It's better not to argue with women,
— Vladimir Putin
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
— Vladimir Lenin
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.
— Vladimir Voinovich
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
![Vladimir's Quotes By Vladimir Nabokov: Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/vladimirs-quotes-by-vladimir-nabokov-1711320.jpg "Vladimir's Quotes By Vladimir Nabokov: Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished")
Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished poem. Note for further use. Dressing
— Vladimir Nabokov
The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it's surprise would erase all sunrays.
— Vladimir Nabokov
But I,from poetry's skies,
plunge into communism,
because
without it
I feel no love. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.
— Vladimir Nabokov
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
— Vladimir Putin
Somehow, too, I remembered Chichikov's round of weird visits in Gogol's Dead Souls.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
— Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
— Garry Kasparov
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes - and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.
— Vladimir Nabokov
And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.
— Vladimir Putin
The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.
— Vladimir Putin
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Death often is the point of life's joke.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.
— Vladimir Putin
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.
— Vladimir Guerrero
If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.
— Vladimir Putin
The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know
— Vladimir Horowitz
And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.
— Vladimir Nabokov
ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.VLADIMIR: That's what you think. — Samuel Beckett
Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.
— Garry Kasparov
such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,
— Masha Gessen
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
— Vladimir Putin
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How can I demonstrate [ ... ] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?
— Vladimir Nabokov
Only experts, for experts, should probe a mind's misery.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
— Vladimir Ashkenazy
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
— Vladimir Putin
For me the game of love is much like hunting a man on foot with a knife. It's not over until the blade is clean.
— Vladimir Putin
My name is Dimitri Belikov. I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess.
— Richelle Mead
Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?
— Vladimir Nabokov
How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
— Vladimir Putin
We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
It's exactly my sense of existing - a fragment, a wisp of color.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.
— Vladimir Putin
To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
The one who kills is always his victim's inferior.
— Vladimir Nabokov
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
— Vladimir Lenin
If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.
— Vladimir Putin
Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality - the deception was bearable.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.
— Vladimir Guerrero
If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
— Vladimir Putin
I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.
— Vladimir Putin
Comrade life,let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
It is fun to be present at the coming true of a dream, even if it is not one's own.
— Vladimir Nabokov
... with somebody's lost pair of sun-glasses for only witness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
When I hear a critic speaking of an author's sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool
— Vladimir Nabokov
One is always at home in one's past...
— Vladimir Nabokov
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.
— Vladimir Putin
You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.
— Vladimir Kamarisky
pencil the exact middle of the head's height. Place a horizontal line there; this should be located below the eyebrows' line.
— Vladimir London
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.
— Vladimir Putin
Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.
— Vladimir Nabokov
