Elena Ferrante Quotes

We had the same sensitivity to beautiful things, the same need to enjoy them, the same need to search for the right words to say how sweet the night was, how magical the moon, how the sea sparkled, how two souls were able to meet and recognize each other in the darkness, in the fragrant air.

Elena Ferrante

• Enjoy
• Search
• Darkness
• Recognize
• Sensitivity

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• My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Show

• The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Real
  • Cool
  • Car

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Evidence
  • Absence

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Important
  • Career

• I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Selling

• A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

  

  Agyness Deyn

• The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

  

  Arthur C. Brooks
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Success

• The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.

  

  Christian Slater
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.

  

  Jane Asher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Democracy, in this late stage of capitalism, has been replaced with a system of legalized bribery. All branches of government, including the courts, along with the systems of entertainment and news, are wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate state. Electoral politics are elaborate puppet shows.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Democracy

• The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz... and some honey... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Good
  • Earth

• A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • Different
  • High
  • Community

• During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Life
  • Sunday
  • Easter

• Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Attention
  • Media
  • '80s

• I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Alone
  • Always

• I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • American
  • Serious

• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Enjoy
  • Regard
  • Wrinkles

• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • War
  • Media

• The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Spirit

• We had the same sensitivity to beautiful things, the same need to enjoy them, the same need to search for the right words to say how sweet the night was, how magical the moon, how the sea sparkled, how two souls were able to meet and recognize each other in the darkness, in the fragrant air.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Enjoy
  • Search
  • Darkness