Elena Ferrante Quotes
In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.Elena Ferrante
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
Carlos Ghosn -
Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
Maisie Williams -
I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.
W. S. Merwin -
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
Aristotle -
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
Virginia Woolf -
I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
Jane Austen
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When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer.
Scott McNealy -
I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
Rebecca Hall -
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway -
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb -
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.
Arik Roper
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Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
Achy Obejas -
Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!
Jonathan Taylor Thomas -
The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both.
Elizabeth Bear -
Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.
Candida Hofer -
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
Ernest Hemingway -
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora Welty
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Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.
Eric Bolling -
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
Eugene H. Peterson -
Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.
Ali Banisadr -
In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.
Elena Ferrante