"I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Daughter Quotes #Names Quotes #People Quotes

“The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.”

Source : "Let Dons Delight". Book by Ronald Knox. Note on Chapter 8, 1939.
“I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.”
“One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.”
“One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.”

Source : Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet
“When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile”
“Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remembers.”
“A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.”
“I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.”

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