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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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Action

• 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

• I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Opinion
  • Feelings
  • Try

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• 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

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Society
  • Team

• 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 residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Children
  • Habit

• Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman-he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• God is a great concept, but it doesn't work

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• I stood in front of a hundred and one critics at a critic's convention and a critic asked me, 'Miss Cho, isn't it true that your management asked you to lose weight to play the part of yourself in your own TV show?' Gail the producer grabbed the mike from me and said, 'There is no truth in that whatsoever.' I...was so...hungry.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Truth
  • True
  • Management

• If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Knows

• Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Listening
  • Listen

• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • People
  • Times
  • Tough

• Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Search

• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Reading
  • Sex

• 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