Elena Ferrante Quotes
The daily standard of unlivability isn’t news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot.Elena Ferrante
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
Aaron McGruder -
I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
Larry Hagman -
My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
Dana Perino -
Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
Kara Swisher -
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
Malcolm Campbell
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling -
Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
J. M. Coetzee -
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
Adam McKay -
It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
S. Truett Cathy -
It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there are things to do.” “Here, too,” she said. “And I’m staying here, believe me.” Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, “Bob would be very disappointed in you.” “Bob the spider?” “He looks at you like a mother, you know. I’m surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for—” She hung up on him and turned the phone on vibrate and relaxed in Shane’s arms.
Rachel Caine
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
Lord Dunsany -
I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.
Alicia Keys -
With regard to my case, the concept has been called a 'sign of the apocalypse' and listed under the News of the Weird.
Tyler Hamilton -
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
Konrad Zuse -
Fools make news, and wise men carry it.
Dorothy Dunnett -
There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
Viswanathan Anand -
Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
D. J. Cotrona -
Filthy abortion clinics are not uncommon, but finding out about health violations at each clinic is no easy task.
Abby Johnson -
The daily standard of unlivability isn’t news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot.
Elena Ferrante