Elena Ferrante Quotes

Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

Elena Ferrante

• Reason
• Language
• Discovery
• Cultivated
• Abandonment

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Never
  • Sex

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Why
  • Artist

• In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Age
  • You

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Voting

• I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Yoga

• Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Anybody
  • Any

• I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Fan
  • Fabulous

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Rejected

• I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Wear
  • Conquer
  • Worlds

• At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wishes

• Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• The reason I love you is not because you are special like nobody I've ever met before. It is because nobody has made me feel more special than anybody ever did before you.

  

  Catherine Ward
  • Love
  • Reason
  • Feel

• If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Play
  • Destroyed
  • Encouragement

• Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reason
  • Language
  • Discovery