Elena Ferrante Quotes

I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.

Elena Ferrante

• Romance
• Controls
• Beasts
• Armor
• Knight

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• Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Money
  • Government
  • Controls

• When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Day

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Romance

• I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Remember
  • Desert
  • Fantasy

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lose
  • Souls
  • Romance

• I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Running
  • Feels
  • Creativity

• There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

  

  Drew Holcomb
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Alive

• Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Winning
  • Sweet

• The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Opposite

• There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Romance
  • Agenda
  • Fragility

• A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • System
  • Price
  • U.S.

• Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Art
  • Passion

• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Knight

• And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Success

• You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.

  

  Anthony Bennett
  • Chance
  • Fail
  • Persevere

• Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Night
  • Stairs

• I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Romance
  • Controls
  • Beasts