Elena Ferrante Quotes
I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.Elena Ferrante
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt -
Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
Naftali Bennett -
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Victoria Principal -
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Vida Blue -
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
Hallie Ephron
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
Haley Joel Osment -
I've never worried about how long the song is.
Adam Jones -
I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
Harmony Korine -
I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it' s peace you find in dyingWell then, let the time be near.
Laura Nyro -
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Larry Wall -
Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
Karl Jaspers
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The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.
J. G. Ballard -
We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.
Lionel Richie -
Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
Kevin Kline -
205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
Cormac McCarthy -
Jennifer was great. She is fantastic. Really easy to work with, no drama, really down-to-earth, such a funny girl. Nothing but good things to say about her. She really was great to work with. And it always makes it easier when you’re working with people that you like and you enjoy being around.
Liam Hemsworth
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They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality. 4
Dave Sim -
The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
Quentin Bryce -
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler -
The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.
Beth Moore -
I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.
Elena Ferrante