Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Never
  • Changes

• I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Never
  • Lonely
  • Bored

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Never
  • Service

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
  • Talent

• I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Never
  • Fame
  • After

• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Intelligence

• We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Never
  • Thought

• I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Believe
  • Tell

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Teeth

• I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Up
  • You
  • Never

• I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • High
  • Think
  • Team

• I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Never
  • Acting

• Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!

  

  Manute Bol
  • You
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I personally have always hated dating. I was never vulnerable or insecure in any part of my life, but I would become that way with a guy because they have control, according to society, when it comes to dating.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Society

• At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Earth

• It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Never
  • Secret
  • Alive