Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.Catherynne M. Valente
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
R. A. Salvatore -
The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I naturally want to be provocative.
Iggy Azalea -
We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
Gary Bettman -
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar -
When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
Katey Sagal -
Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
Wang Jianlin -
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Irving Penn -
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
Eddie Marsan
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
Yoko Ono -
Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?
Ted Deutch -
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
Sam Kean -
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Magnus Carlsen -
We for a certainty are not the firstHave sat in taverns while the tempest hurledTheir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursedWhatever brute and blackguard made the world.
A. E. Housman -
I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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The world has held great Heroes,As history books have showed;But never a name to go down to fameCompared with that of Toad!
Kenneth Grahame -
To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
Imelda Staunton -
You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?
Joanne Rowling -
In Gov. Huckabee's case, consistency is seen as principle... and that's incredibly valuable to voters.
Kellyanne Conway -
It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
Catherynne M. Valente