#dre

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#dreams #genius #snow #up #who

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#dreadful #end #eyes #frailties #i

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #giving #happy #ignore #invented

The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the unbelieving postmodernist. our faith is a dogma that makes you dance. ↗

— Reggie M. Kidd

#rationalism #romaticism #dreams

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#continue #create #disaster #environment #here

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#bad thing #children #occasionally #parents #place

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. ↗

— James Newman

#least #often #scientists #spoken #wisdom

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#gigantic #having #having children #i #life

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#astronomer #become #child #dream #efforts