Elena Ferrante Quotes
The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
Conformity is dangerous.
Adam Grant
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
Fabrizio Moreira
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
Rachele Brooke Smith
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
J. Michael Bishop
Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
Caitlin Moran
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
Saint Ignatius
It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
Lady Gaga
What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
Dan Farmer
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
Oscar Isaac
I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-Pain
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
Madeleine Albright
L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
Mamie Gummer
Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
Rafael dos Anjos
To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
Zac Brown Band
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Jackie Chan
