Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Never
  • Try

• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Good
  • Never
  • Story

• Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Book
  • Never

• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Never
  • Said

• Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Language
  • Story
  • DNA

• I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Never
  • Educated

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Play
  • Movies

• I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Love
  • Road
  • Story

• I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Process

• A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Never
  • Act

• I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Done
  • Me
  • Never

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

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

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Teeth

• Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • Never
  • Assumptions

• Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

  

  Oliver North
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Story

• I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Movies
  • Falling

• ...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Learn
  • Hard Way

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Jeans
  • Straight
  • Cut

• As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Hell

• Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Team

• No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Death
  • Never
  • Story