Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
Daniel Baldwin
Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
Maisie Williams
She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me!" .... "The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me!" .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)
Ted Dekker
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
Andy Rooney
I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.
Muddy Waters
But everybody there knew 'Lord of the Rings,' ... It's really amazing.
Elijah Wood
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
Virginia Woolf
Plutus himself,
That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
Hath not in nature's mystery more science
Than I have in this ring.
William Shakespeare
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
William Congreve
I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
Wilt Chamberlain
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have some great digital pictures I could sell on the Internet [of Lucy] doing splits and handstands and running around and stuff. My parents came to the set, I brought them over from Scotland, and they loved her. They said, 'This girl has so much energy, where the hell does that come from?' It just comes from her. She's incredibly infectious.
Paul McGuigan
Oasis
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
Carly Fiorina
My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.
Alyssa Milano
When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.
Catherynne M. Valente
