Elena Ferrante Quotes

A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Generation
  • Kid

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Deep
  • Lyrics

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• I just want to stay professional.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Professional
  • Stay

• I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Red
  • Corner

• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Happened
  • Graduation

• Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Moving

• Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Mindset

• Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

  

  James Gleick
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Air

• In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • City
  • Moon

• You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Feeling

• I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Long
  • Matters
  • Critical

• I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Friends
  • Angel

• You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Sometimes

• The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Life
  • Heart
  • May

• We have succeeded in observing two laws of the utmost importance, the first is that the increase in the number of heart beats is in quite direct proportion to the sum of the weights lifted to a determined height, the second is that the quantity.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Heart
  • Proportion
  • Quantity

• A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Heart
  • Beat
  • Clock