Elena Ferrante Quotes

For example, I came to my exams very well prepared, but if the professor were suddenly to ask me, “Do you know from what works I derive the authority on the basis of which I teach this subject in this university?” I wouldn’t know what to answer. But the others knew. So I moved among them fearful of saying and doing the wrong things.

Elena Ferrante

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• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Become
  • Complicated
  • IRS

• The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Future
  • Violence

• My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Business
  • Father
  • Man

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Truth

• Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Life
  • Music
  • Air

• The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

  

  Louise Hart
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Failure

• The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • People
  • God
  • Internet

• The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Action
  • Essence
  • Concentration

• He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Funny
  • Die
  • Comedy

• I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Latin

• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  

  J. Allen Hynek
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

  

  Kabir

• The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

  

  Moshe Katsav
  • Organization
  • Authority
  • Obligation

• It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Color

• For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Issues
  • Bunch

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• For example, I came to my exams very well prepared, but if the professor were suddenly to ask me, “Do you know from what works I derive the authority on the basis of which I teach this subject in this university?” I wouldn’t know what to answer. But the others knew. So I moved among them fearful of saying and doing the wrong things.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Teach
  • Authority
  • University