Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Words

• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Words

• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Family
  • Necessary
  • Keeping

• Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Words
  • You
  • Story

• Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Right
  • Nation
  • Herself

• The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • World
  • Good
  • House

• I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Up
  • Words
  • Know

• To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.

  

  Maimonides
  • Words
  • Evil

• Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • May
  • Words
  • Wisdom

• He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Words
  • Fear

• I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Words

• Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Words

• Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Time
  • Words

• Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Words
  • Training

• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Words
  • Bible
  • Gold

• The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.

  

  Willis Reed
  • Star
  • Moon
  • Heading

• I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

  

  Leonid I. Brezhnev
  • May
  • Home
  • Today

• After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Words
  • Secret
  • Champagne