Elena Ferrante Quotes

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.

Elena Ferrante

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • You
  • Nothing

• Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Culture
  • You
  • Chinese

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • World
  • Dream

• What chieftain, walking by himself, crying Most miserable, most victorious,Does not see these separate figures one by one, And yet see only one, in his old coat, His slouching pantaloons, beyond the town,Looking for what was, where it used to be?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • Crying

• No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Daily

• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Life
  • Success

• Some men like me talkin' happy Some calls it snappy Some call me honey Others think I got money Some tell me baby you're built for speed Now if you put that all together Makes me everything a good man needs.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Money

• People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Great

• The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

  

  Bob Graham
  • Time
  • Great
  • War

• Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

  

  Emily Carr
  • Inspiration
  • Spring
  • Searching

• Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

  

  Ty Pennington
  • Drawing

• We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Language
  • Doubt
  • Hunters

• I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Feels
  • Knows
  • Saving

• He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in order to draw him into the joy of fellowship with Him, into the peace of His Presence.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • God
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Live
  • Night
  • Wish

• The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Night
  • Empty
  • Noose