Elena Ferrante Quotes

The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.

Elena Ferrante

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Battle

• I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Time
  • Industry
  • Hospitality

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Myself

• I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Money
  • Home
  • Moments

• …all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Trying

• No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.

  

  Adam Smith

• I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa

• A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

  

  James J. Gibson
  • May
  • Energy

• At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

  

  Pete du Pont

• For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • People
  • High
  • Anxiety

• There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Free
  • Football

• I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

  

  Keith Green
  • Lives
  • Would
  • Christians

• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Fear

• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Forgiveness
  • Abyss

• Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • inspirational
  • Firsts
  • Ifs

• A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Blue
  • Skin
  • Muppets

• The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Heart
  • Attention
  • Passionate