Elena Ferrante Quotes

I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.

Elena Ferrante

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Want
  • Black
  • See

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Different
  • Best
  • Effort

• It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Wall

• I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • School
  • Study
  • Acting

• I love physicality. I love movement very much.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • I Love
  • Movement
  • Much

• The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Lifestyle
  • Spotlight
  • Footballer

• There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • Just
  • Boots

• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Quality
  • Generosity
  • Defensive

• My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • God
  • Man
  • Dark

• I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• Terrorists who try to sow chaos, they must be met with force and they must also be met, though, with a forceful commitment to uphold the rule of law, and respect for human rights, and to treat everybody who’s peaceful and law-abiding fairly and equally.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Commitment

• The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Technology
  • Learning

• The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Remember
  • Humanity
  • Thoughts

• One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

  

  Bobby Sherman
  • Real
  • Parents
  • Birthday

• The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?

  

  Noreena Hertz
  • Vision
  • Employees
  • Corporations

• I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Birthday
  • Flowers
  • Imitation