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

• We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, certain firemen feel their sense of honour has been meddled with, ... But it's TV -- we choose highly dramatic situations. You know, because Ally McBeal wore short skirts they weren't saying all female lawyers wear short skirts. So there are some mixed feelings among firemen.

  

  Andrea Roth
  • Great
  • Choose
  • Certain

• 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

• I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Men
  • War

• 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

• I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • See
  • Wrong
  • Laws

• 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

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Wonder

• London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Dream
  • Night
  • City

• Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People

• Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

  

  Sander Levin

• 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