Elena Ferrante Quotes

A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.

Elena Ferrante

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• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Art
  • May
  • Science

• You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Always
  • Never
  • Understand

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Hate
  • Point
  • Admitting

• As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Actor
  • Looking

• Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone’s activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it’s all bliss, it’s not necessary for the people to suffer.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Lines 10–16

  

  W. H. Auden

• Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

  

  Branford Marsalis

• It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Powerful

• It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Amazing
  • Environment
  • Kitchen

• I can't point to my work and say, 'This is my work.' My work lives in me, so when people criticize my work, they're also criticizing me. It's really hard to sort of divorce that sensitivity.

  

  Frankie J. Alvarez
  • People
  • Work
  • Divorce

• Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not that way. It's very gray, and the messier you can be, the better. The mistakes that you make are the gold and the beautiful stuff.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Gold

• Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Simple

• Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Space
  • Red
  • Blue

• I was 19 when I made my Bollywood debut with 'Ekk Deewana Tha,' and all alone in Mumbai. I would be easily affected by all that was said or written about me.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Alone

• We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

  

  Art Hoppe
  • Time
  • Worry

• In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

  

  Bill Pascrell
  • Fire
  • Police

• Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do… then you never get to find out what happens next!

  

  Brian Falkner
  • Life
  • Book
  • Chapters

• Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Book
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Personality
  • Persons
  • Rhythm

• If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Past

• A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Book
  • Reader
  • Push