Latest Quotes

“I dreamt of you last night – as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“I want you to be happy, and it seems to me that I could give you that happiness — a sunny, simple happiness — and not an altogether common one.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“See you soon my strange joy, my tender night.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“I swear — and the inkblot has nothing to do with it — I swear by all that’s dear to me, all I believe in — I swear that I have never loved before as I love you, — with such tenderness — to the point of tears — and with such a sense of radiance.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”

— Timber Hawkeye, Buddhist Boot Camp

“Donald Trump always pays his bills promptly. You won't hear that. Promptly, no discounts.”

— Phil Ruffin, Does Donald Trump always pay his bills promptly?

“Our economy is not growing.”

— Rick Scott, Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrongly says economy is not growing

“Neighborhoods have become more violent under President Barack Obama's watch.”

— Darryl Glenn, Glenn blames Obama for violent crime, despite long drop in c

“Hillary has changed her positions so many times, it's impossible to tell where the conviction ends and the ambition begins [...] Once a backer of the Keystone Pipeline, last year she opposed it.”

— Mitch McConnell, Day 2 of GOP convention speeches

“A Hillary Clinton Supreme Court means your right to own a firearm is gone.”

— Chris Cox, Day 2 of GOP convention speeches: CNN vets the claims

“Donald Trump will be a President not beholden to special interests, foreign and domestic and one who funded his entire primary run out of his own pocket just to prove it.”

— Donald Trump Jr., Day 2 of GOP convention speeches: CNN vets the claims

“Because of this reckless action by the candidate who is the self-proclaimed champion of women all around the world. These al Qaeda terrorists abducted hundreds of innocent young women two years ago. These school girls are still missing today. And what was the solution from the Obama/Clinton team? A…”

— Chris Christie, Day 2 of GOP convention speeches: CNN vets the claims

“In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an al Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.”

— Chris Christie, Day 2 of GOP convention speeches

“You see them [Black Lives Matter protesters] marching and you see them on occasion, at least — I’ve seen it — where they’re essentially calling, ‘Death to police.’ And that’s not acceptable.’”

— Donald Trump, Fact-checking the first day of the 2016 Republican National Convention

“Hillary Clinton is proposing 'destroying Medicare for seniors.'”

— Donald Trump Jr., Would Hillary Clinton destroy Medicare? Trump Jr. says yes

“I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son. Personally. In an email to her daughter shortly after the attack Hillary Clinton blamed it on terrorism. But when I saw Hillary Clinton … she lied to me and then called me a liar. When I saw Hillary Clinton … she looked me squarely in the e…”

— Patricia Smith, Fact-checking the first day of the 2016 Republican National Convention

“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us with $19 trillion in debt.”

— Sean Duffy, Sean Duffy's RNC claim about who left $19 debt wrong