Elena Ferrante Quotes

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Elena Ferrante

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• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Restaurants

• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
  • Times
  • Repeat

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Done
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Reality
  • Means
  • Appearance

• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Society

• Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Learning
  • Lies

• To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Alone

• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Society

• Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Knowledge
  • Knows
  • Phrases

• When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Dog
  • Persons
  • Cat

• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Day
  • End
  • Wine

• They have repeated their arguments but the substantive position has not changed.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Changed
  • Arguments
  • Repeated

• I'd rather love you and be alone than love you and be with her or anyone.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Love
  • Alone

• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • World
  • Art
  • Tree

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Secret
  • Languages
  • Antidote