Elena Ferrante Quotes

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

Elena Ferrante

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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

• 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

• Even Disney - off the record, but on the record - knows that I have the power. They love me because of that. I don't act like it. I'm not walking around all cocky, but the tables have turned.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Power
  • Walking
  • Disney

• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Humanity
  • Risk
  • Accidents

• I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

  

  Emily Perkins

• I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Passion
  • Immigration

• I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Anger
  • Killer
  • Rebelliousness

• 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