Elena Ferrante Quotes
Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.
Elena Ferrante
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We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
Gavin MacLeod
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
Gaby Hoffmann
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.
Imogen Heap
To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
L. Ron Hubbard
As a trader you often walk on the blade. Be careful and don't step off.
Marc Rich
In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites.
Apollonius of Tyana
I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly
Agnes Martin
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Lew Wallace
There is in stillness oft a magic powerTo calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;Touch'd by its influence, in the soul ariseDiviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
John Henry Newman
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.
Jerry Lewis
I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I received an email from a teacher who told me that 'Legend' was the first book one of her troubled young students had ever read to the end. He cried when he finished it. Stories like that stay with you forever.
Marie Lu
For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
John Locke
Nazareth
Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.
Elena Ferrante
