Elena Ferrante Quotes

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Humanity

• Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Media
  • Maybe
  • Divided

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Road
  • New

• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
  • Important
  • Hope

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• Art must not serve might.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Art
  • Serve
  • Must

• Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Sad
  • Moment
  • Lion

• Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Light
  • Space

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Time
  • Attention

• MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Question
  • Laughter

• When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • High
  • Couple

• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • World
  • Ugly

• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Heart

• If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan

• I remember thinking, 'If I don't love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.' That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, 'I love you.'

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Mirror

• When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Art
  • Smoking

• Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mind
  • Bite
  • Quickness