Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Body

• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Weird

• The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Body

• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Exercise
  • Working

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Body
  • Head
  • Turn

• Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Important
  • Power
  • Body

• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • May
  • American
  • Body

• My body is my greatest asset.

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Body
  • Greatest
  • Asset

• Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Body
  • Architecture

• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Work
  • Body
  • Voice

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
  • Running
  • Body
  • Yoga

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Dead

• Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Law
  • Body

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Beautiful
  • Sometimes
  • Blush

• So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Mother
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • World
  • Laughing
  • Amusement

• High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Culture
  • Humans
  • Sentiments

• A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Body
  • Humors
  • Memento Mori