Elena Ferrante Quotes

I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.

Elena Ferrante

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• I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Film

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Know
  • Boundaries

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Saying
  • Class

• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Myself
  • Without

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Brave

• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • May
  • Strong
  • Energy

• I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Laugh

• I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.

  

  Kai Bird
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Nothing
  • Run
  • They Say

• Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Read

• The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Reality

• It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Alone

• The upside is that the army was refusing to prohibit, you know, big hairy men from going into the ladies' locker room. And I thought, 'Well, you know, maybe finally this will cut down on girls in the marines.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Men
  • Army

• Make sure you have a clear understanding of your values and intent, then use technology to enable that. What the tech won't do is compensate for a lack of strategy.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Happy
  • Way

• One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Want
  • Doing
  • New York

• Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

  

  John Ruskin
  • Stupid
  • My Mother
  • Indulged

• I hope to be acting until I am 90.

  

  Clive Standen
  • Hope

• I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • People
  • Taste
  • Cream