"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
Topic(s):
Dreams
More From Vladimir Nabokov
- "Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
- "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."
- "Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know."
More In Dreams
- "My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams."― Diane Keaton
- "It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror."― Michael Bloomberg
- "I’d definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child’s dreams. I’d just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do… I think I’d be a good parent, actually."― Drew Barrymore