Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I am an ordinary person.
Frances McDormand -
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 -
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 -
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey -
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor
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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 -
Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.
Rachel Caine -
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
William Hazlitt -
I am what I am because of who we all are.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
William Shakespeare -
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
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Manuscripts don't burn.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Yeah, I'm the 'new guy'.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.
Martin Luther -
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.
Scott Westerfeld -
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
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If it doesn't burn a little then what's the point of playing with fire?
Bridgett Devoue -
Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!
Kay Arthur -
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
Charles William Eliot -
I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
Catherynne M. Valente