Elena Ferrante Quotes

She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face.

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Idea

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Story
  • Student
  • Iceland

• It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Funny

• Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Chinese

• Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mirror
  • Grateful
  • Thankful

• And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Why
  • Want
  • Woman

• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Life
  • War
  • My Life

• Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • American
  • History
  • Cotton

• Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hate

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• Everybody's a nun.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Why
  • Fall

• Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • World
  • Die
  • Model

• The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Different
  • May
  • Style

• There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren't possible before.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • Done

• So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

  

  William James
  • Mean
  • Taken
  • Educated

• When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • World
  • Words
  • Change

• She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Moon
  • Forest
  • Scribble