Elena Ferrante Quotes
Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.
Elena Ferrante
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I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
Aaliyah
Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.
Nazanin Boniadi
A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Isaac Asimov
It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
Anish Kapoor
Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings
Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.
David Moyes
One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.
Charles Hugh Smith
Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.
Amber Valletta
Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.
Elena Ferrante