Elena Ferrante Quotes

It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.

Elena Ferrante

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• A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Light
  • Wall
  • Edge

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • American
  • Wall

• Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • School
  • Me
  • Interest

• I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Wall

• I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Today
  • Star
  • Wall

• In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Way
  • Wall

• When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • City
  • Forever
  • Wall

• The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Wall
  • Destiny

• Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Money
  • Wall

• With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Hate

• I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Up
  • School
  • Law

• I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Wall

• You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Society
  • Earth
  • Support

• About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Movie
  • Comedy
  • Door

• 'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

  

  Jason Day
  • School
  • Wall
  • Golf

• I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

  

  Susan Downey
  • Interest
  • Films
  • Actress

• Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

  

  Michael Pollan
  • Growing
  • States
  • Ingredients

• We are being obliged to consider the significance of woman and her existence as a problem. We cannot evade the question as to what we are and what we should be.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Question

• It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Wall
  • Interest
  • Print