Elena Ferrante Quotes

I seemed tranquil but I was extremely agitated, my face hurt with the effort of smiling.

Elena Ferrante

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• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Lord
  • Now
  • Brighton

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Problem
  • Games
  • Got

• Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • True
  • Fear

• I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Comfortable
  • Relaxed

• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Live
  • Death
  • Die

• Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Sleep
  • Exercise

• Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Risk

• Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Giving

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Long
  • Commitment

• I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Humble

• I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • People
  • Book
  • Shopping

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes

  

  Willie Mays
  • People
  • Eye
  • September

• I pride myself on being Japanese American.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Pride
  • Japanese American

• I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

  

  bell hooks
  • Mind
  • Girl
  • Moving

• "Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hurt
  • Imagine
  • Changed

• I seemed tranquil but I was extremely agitated, my face hurt with the effort of smiling.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Effort
  • Hurt
  • Smiling