Elena Ferrante Quotes

I was stunned. Fernando looked out, still screaming horrible threats at his daughter. He had thrown her like a thing.

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• People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • History
  • Taken

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
  • Think

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • World
  • Hate
  • Enjoy

• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Learn

• I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Satisfied

• I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Real
  • Truth
  • History

• Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Power
  • War

• I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Words

• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Food

• We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Judge

• Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

  

  Bryan Clay
  • World

• I didn't get a normal school life, and my sisters have told me so many fun stories about college, so I'm just so excited.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• I am passionate about spreading awareness about Sri Lankan food.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Food

• Modeling is really silent acting.

  

  Arizona Muse

• Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

  

  Brad Meltzer

• But now? well now, now I have no fear of Witches, goblins, ghosts, thugs, Giants, ghouls, scallywags, etc, nor any sort of body.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Fear

• There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • God
  • Mother
  • Stop

• Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Daughter
  • Shoes

• ..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Society
  • Painting

• The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • America
  • Laugh
  • Basics

• I was stunned. Fernando looked out, still screaming horrible threats at his daughter. He had thrown her like a thing.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Daughter
  • Threats
  • Thrown