Elena Ferrante Quotes
My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
Rachel Morrison
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.
Virginia Woolf
What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?
Isaac Newton
This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.
Marilyn Monroe
There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
Bessie Smith
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange,because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.
Karl Marx
All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
Erol Alkan
My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
Sarah Dessen
Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
Dan Monson
My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.
Elena Ferrante
