Elena Ferrante Quotes

..what a terrible thing a dissatisfied mind is.

Elena Ferrante

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• Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Media
  • Maybe
  • Divided

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Peace
  • Belief
  • Building

• Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Trade
  • Dollar

• I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • Good
  • Art

• The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Human
  • Fight
  • Exploitation

• I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Meaningful
  • Farewell

• Puns are the highest form of literature.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Literature

• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

  

  Albert Ellis

• I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

  

  Eric Davis

• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Music
  • Art
  • Attention

• I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • People

• I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

  

  Donald Judd

• I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

  

  David Axelrod
  • People
  • Good

• I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

  

  Marion Ross
  • World
  • Home
  • Faith

• I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

  

  Sophocles
  • Mind
  • Speech
  • Empty

• I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Son
  • Famous

• I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

  

  Don Novello
  • Time
  • Done

• For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Long
  • Play
  • Stage

• ..what a terrible thing a dissatisfied mind is.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mind
  • Dissatisfied
  • Terrible Thing