Elena Ferrante Quotes

I knew - perhaps I hoped - that no form could ever contain Lila, and that sooner or later she would break everything again.

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Internet

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Know

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • Experience
  • Free

• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.

  

  Caitlin Lowe
  • People
  • Game
  • Energy

• I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

  

  W. Heath Robinson
  • Health
  • Mad
  • Secret

• I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Shows
  • Dancing
  • Vancouver

• An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Help
  • Black
  • Writers

• We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • World
  • Heart
  • Mother

• When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Political
  • Religion
  • Engine

• The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Knowledge
  • Goal
  • Progression

• I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

  

  Steve Southerland
  • Believe
  • Process
  • Grow

• If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Peace
  • Violence
  • Break

• I knew - perhaps I hoped - that no form could ever contain Lila, and that sooner or later she would break everything again.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Break
  • Hoped