Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• I am an ordinary person.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Trump
  • Burn
  • Global

• For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Heart
  • Fitness
  • Burn

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Things
  • Burn
  • Ashes

• I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Picture
  • Working
  • Industry

• Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hand
  • Fire
  • Warm

• Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Reach
  • Maturity
  • Burn

• To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Acting
  • Kings
  • Beggar

• I am what I am because of who we all are.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Because

• Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blind
  • Plague
  • Madmen

• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Return
  • Instruction
  • Bloody

• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  

  Petrarch
  • Books
  • Delight
  • Bones

• Manuscripts don't burn.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Burn
  • Manuscripts

• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Burn
  • Self-destructive
  • Fade Away

• Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Senses
  • Adolescence
  • Plague

• Yeah, I'm the 'new guy'.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Guy

• One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Guitar
  • Burn

• There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.

  

  William C. Hannon
  • Carry
  • Burn
  • Flames

• O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Mind
  • Silent
  • Reader

• If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Interesting
  • Mistake
  • Honest

• He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Justice

• I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Burn
  • Plague
  • Marrow