Elena Ferrante Quotes

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

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• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Find
  • Looking
  • Looking Back

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Success
  • Know
  • Curious

• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • American
  • America

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Bad
  • Same
  • Media

• Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Party
  • Fight
  • System

• I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Women
  • Disappointment

• It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Love
  • Why
  • Mystery

• This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • War
  • Game

• Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Mind
  • May
  • Day

• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Language

• I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Today
  • You
  • Mean

• Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Time
  • Line
  • Series

• For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

  

  John Milton
  • False
  • Frail
  • Surmise

• My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Real
  • Ideas

• People understand that Trump is a born leader.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • People
  • Trump

• I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen. But I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

  

  Dean Winters
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • People
  • Hate
  • Fragments