Elena Ferrante Quotes

The reasonableness of others and my own desire for tranquility got on my nerves. The breath built up in my throat, ready to vibrate with words of rage. I felt the need to quarrel, and in fact I quarreled first with our male friends, then with their wives or girlfriends, and finally I went on to clash with anyone, male or female, who tried to help me accept what was happening to my life.

Elena Ferrante

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• Accept
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• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Women
  • School

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Diversity
  • Loss
  • Forgive

• I would love to go to film school.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • School
  • Love
  • Film

• Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Place
  • Liberal

• In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • School
  • Happy
  • High

• It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Honor
  • Liberty
  • Awarded

• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Idea
  • Creativity

• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  

  O. Henry
  • Power
  • Funeral

• People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Fear
  • Hurt
  • Desert

• All animals feel Wonder, and many exhibit Curiosity. They sometimes suffer from this latter quality, as when the hunter plays antics and thus attracts them.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Quality
  • Wonder
  • Curiosity

• The United States while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none, it being a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, so war is better than tribute.

  

  James Madison
  • America
  • War
  • Peace

• With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Crazy
  • Animal

• While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Up
  • Important
  • Real

• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Power
  • Truth

• Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • People
  • Together
  • Service

• If you'd listen, even for a little while I'd be pleased Remember, once more we were born into this world crying. Your dreams and hopes for tomorrow are all in this world.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • World
  • Remember
  • Dreams

• Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • People
  • Real
  • Just

• The reasonableness of others and my own desire for tranquility got on my nerves. The breath built up in my throat, ready to vibrate with words of rage. I felt the need to quarrel, and in fact I quarreled first with our male friends, then with their wives or girlfriends, and finally I went on to clash with anyone, male or female, who tried to help me accept what was happening to my life.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Friends
  • Desire
  • Accept