Elena Ferrante Quotes

On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.

Elena Ferrante

• Energy
• Harmony
• Written
• Impression
• Immediate
• Transposition

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• I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Best
  • Picture
  • King

• My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Up
  • Career
  • Parents

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hate
  • Summer
  • Camping

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• I'm far from being a homosexual.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Being
  • Far
  • Homosexual

• A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Day

• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Great
  • Success

• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • News

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Fish
  • Meat

• The words of the world want to make sentences.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Want
  • Words

• We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • History
  • Look
  • Club

• My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Reason
  • Inspiration
  • Lose

• What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Red

• There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Up
  • Strong

• When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

• I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

  

  Kjell Magne Bondevik
  • Important
  • History

• Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook.

  

  Nizar Qabbani
  • Light
  • Poem
  • Notebook

• On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Energy
  • Harmony
  • Written