Elena Ferrante Quotes

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

Elena Ferrante

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  • Organization

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
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  • Think
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• I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

  

  Otis Rush
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  • Sit

• You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

  

  Adam McKay
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• I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
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• When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.

  

  Eddy Cue
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• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Shoes

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Important
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Day
  • Better
  • Speech

• The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Rock
  • Early

• The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Experience

• When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Work
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• To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

• The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Long
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  • Road

• After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Great
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• In those one-off games, everyone can do those, but you put together a six, seven-game tournament, the strong survive. For me to still feel good from beginning to end, that's a testament to how I train and what I do.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Good
  • Together
  • Game

• Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

  

  Marissa Moss
  • Life

• Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Individual
  • Part
  • Measure

• I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Animal
  • Queen
  • Passes