Elena Ferrante Quotes

Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.

Elena Ferrante

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• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  

  Ed Markey
  • America
  • Technology
  • Safety

• Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Dog
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• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
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• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Country
  • Need

• As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
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• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Love
  • Like
  • Questions

• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Determination

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Death
  • Bible

• Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Why

• While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Universe

• The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Progress

• The word is not the thing.

  

  Alfred Korzybski

• Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Rose
  • Lion

• We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • God
  • May
  • Practice

• Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

  

  William Petersen
  • People
  • Character
  • Want

• There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• There is no better designer than nature.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Nature
  • Designer

• Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nature
  • Horror
  • Flesh