Elena Ferrante Quotes

If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.

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• I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • School
  • Dinner

• I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

  

  Rachel True
  • Think
  • Follower
  • Frankly

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Finance

• In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Past
  • Small

• Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Growing
  • Mom

• When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Color

• Making a book is such a big enterprise.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Book
  • Big
  • Enterprise

• The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Weird
  • Gone
  • Before

• I started doing stand-up in college.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Up
  • College
  • Doing

• I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Think
  • Education

• Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

  

  James Hillman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• There's certainly never a dull moment in the Stewart clan.

  

  Penny Lancaster

• They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • People

• I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It's not like it's not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting... it's not like I'd make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Cutting

• My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

  

  David Ortiz
  • She
  • Mom

• I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

  

  Jane Lynch

• The work is the work. The work is not me.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Work

• With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Money
  • Picture

• I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

  

  Jill Robinson
  • America
  • Crazy

• For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Up

• That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Eternal
  • Woman Lifts

• If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Money
  • Destroy
  • MAle