Vasiliev Vladimir Quotes

Breathing can and should bring you into a ready-to-act condition instantly. ~ Vladimir Vasiliev

The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you. ~ Vladimir Vasiliev

Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health. ~ Vladimir Vasiliev

VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away. ~ Samuel Beckett

"offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual" ... ~ Vladimir Nabokov

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ~ Vladimir Putin

My little cup brims with tiddles. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

It's better not to argue with women, ~ Vladimir Putin

Plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

There was no Lo to behold. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

The soulless have no need of melancholia ~ Vladimir Odoyevsky

twirling in his fingers the mummy of a cigar, ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I think she always nursed a small mad hope. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Every cook must learn to rule the State. ~ Vladimir Lenin

A cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

The one who kills is always his victim's inferior. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Money can buy many things. Even power. ~ Vladimir Makarov

Every society is three meals away from chaos ~ Vladimir Lenin

Do those clowns really believe what they teach? ~ Vladimir Nabokov

There is only one school: that of talent. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Vodka after tea keeps the soul frost-free! ~ Vladimir Sorokin

... with somebody's lost pair of sun-glasses for only witness. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic ~ Vladimir Nabokov

She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Unattached details take all the sparkle out of your conversation. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Solitude is the playfield of Satan. I ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Time is but memory in the making. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

My characters are galley slaves. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

The satisfaction of a special Pninian craving. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

My heart seemed everywhere at once. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

What are these hopes, and who is this savior?" "Imagination," replied Cincinnatus. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. ~ Vladimir Putin

I had possessed her - and she never knew it. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Maria!
How can I fit a tender word into bulging ears? ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky

Good by-aye! she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

One of our sillier Zemblan proverbs says: the lost glove is happy. Promptly ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Look at this tangle of thorns. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

The goal of Socialism is Communism. ~ Vladimir Lenin

the awfulness of love and violets ~ Vladimir Nabokov

While you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

and he, Hugh Person....began to undress her in the motels of his mind ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished poem. Note for further use. Dressing ~ Vladimir Nabokov

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Be true to your Dick. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

We are most artistically caged. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with ~ Vladimir Nabokov

A bowling ball rolled through his head, diagonally from nape to temple; it paused and started back. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I appealed to her stale flesh very seldom, only in cases of great urgency and despair. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

But I want to make sure of our whereabouts and whenabouts,' said Van. 'It is a philosophical need. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

You talk like a book. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others' lives. ~ Vladimir Putin

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.' ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

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A shoe-shaped bath tub, within which I felt like Marat but with no white-necked maiden to stab me. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Nobody strolled and laughed on the sidewalks as relaxing burghers would in sweet, mellow, rotting Europe. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. ~ Vladimir Lenin

One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself. ~ Vladimir Lenin

In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I, on my part, was as naive as only a pervert can be. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

No man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals,
And women, battered like overused proverbs. ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky

Forget me now, but remember me afterwards, when the bitter part is forgotten. This ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Learning is never done without errors and defeat. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! ~ Vladimir Nabokov

... two lumpy old ladies in semitransparent raincoats, like potatoes in cellophane ... ~ Vladimir Nabokov

And in the meantime the rain had become a voluptuous shower. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror. ~ Vladimir Lenin

There is no uniform, global model for democracy. ~ Vladimir Putin

Time means succession, and succession, change: Hence timelessness is bound to disarrange Schedules of sentiment. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp? ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

You have to be an artist and a madman... ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Somehow, too, I remembered Chichikov's round of weird visits in Gogol's Dead Souls. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it's surprise would erase all sunrays. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it. ~ Vladimir Kamarisky

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it. ~ Vladimir Putin