Elena Ferrante Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
-
The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
-
America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
-
I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
-
I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
-
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
-
There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
-
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
-
I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
-
Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
-
If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
-
Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
-
Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.
-
I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way.
-
You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.
-
When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.
-
Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.
-
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
-
The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.
-
I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
-
Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
-
You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.
