Elena Ferrante Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
-
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
-
Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
-
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
-
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
-
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
-
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
-
I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
-
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
-
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
-
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
-
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
-
And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
-
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
-
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
-
I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
-
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
-
I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.
-
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
-
Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas, tend to be in regions which suffer the most social and political instability.
-
I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.
-
There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.
