Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one ought to let him in to dinner.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Time
  • Hope
  • You

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I'm sellin this shit, I ain't tellin this shit, I'm a mutha fuckin 2-time felon ya bitch From the cold hearted streets of the LBC To a mansion in the south down the street from my nigga P See, real niggas recognize the realness Put ya muthafuckin' choppers up if ya feel this.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Up
  • Time

• I come from film, where I only play a character for three months at a time, and then it's done, so it's important for me to be able to put on other hats and make sure that all of the tools in my toolbox that don't apply to Olivia Pope are still in shape.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Time
  • Important
  • Done

• I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.

  

  Ben Hogan
  • Time
  • Game

• By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Time
  • Free
  • Feeling

• The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• I find myself on Yelp typing in 'the best 'blank'' all the time: best cheese, best ice cream, best pizza.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Time
  • Pizza

• I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Time
  • Passion

• You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Free

• History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.

  

  David Autor
  • Time
  • History

• In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

  

  Desmond Llewelyn
  • Time
  • Father
  • Game

• When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.

  

  James Altucher
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  

  Karen O
  • Pain
  • End
  • Promise

• Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Seductive
  • Attributes
  • Vampires

• I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.

  

  Deke Richards

• We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one ought to let him in to dinner.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Time
  • Young
  • Grown-Up