#magi

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #brute #i #magic #only

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#enjoy #enjoy life #imagination #immature #immortal

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#poet #precision #scientist #should #writer

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

#anything #compare #dreams #genius #imagine

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#exist #future #imagine #need #order

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#employees #imagine #just #listening #means

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#book #called #could #early #either

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #fear #fright #goes #i

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#animal #around #bear #bit #close

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#al #al gore #back #been #carry