"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence." — Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author, born 1899
"Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars." — Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author, born 1899
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." — Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author, born 1899
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." — Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author, born 1899
"Don't be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upward." — Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist, born 1899
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece." — Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author, born 1899
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them." — Ogden Nash, American humorous poet, born 1902
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." — Ovid, Roman poet, born 43 BC
"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence." — Ovid, Roman poet, born 43 BC
"There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself." — James Naylor, English Quaker leader, born 1616
"The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind." — Vera Nazarian, American writer, born 1966
"The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer." — Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor, born 1952