Elena Ferrante Quotes
A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
-
Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
-
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.
-
I just want to stay professional.
-
I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
-
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
-
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.
-
Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
-
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
-
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
-
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
-
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.
-
Keeping the balance reached with Iran on the nuclear issue.
-
You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
-
It is less than four years since cohomological methods (i.e. methods of Homological Algebra) were introduced into Algebraic Geometry in Serre's fundamental paper
-
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
-
A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
