Elena Ferrante Quotes

It was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.

Elena Ferrante

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• I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Men
  • Job
  • Modeling

• We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Flexibility

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Know
  • Distance
  • Loyal

• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Leadership
  • More
  • Leaders

• My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Time
  • War
  • Think

• If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Food
  • Foundation
  • Eating

• The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Sad

• I am forever learning and changing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Changing

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • New York
  • London
  • Warm

• If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

  

  Mary Browne
  • Friends

• As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • War
  • Laws
  • Wins

• Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Home
  • Teach
  • Heavens

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• It was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Brain
  • Sound
  • Hear