Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • Bad
  • House

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• Rich people march on Washington every day.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • People
  • Day
  • Rich

• Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Rich
  • Pasta

• Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Heart
  • May
  • Politics

• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Rich

• If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Rich
  • Wrong
  • Politicians

• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Energy

• I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • I Know
  • Troubled

• “When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. I went to the best schools, and got the best girls. My intelligence quotient was well above average; and yet I could be a rebellious, troublesome punk who brought more than a little anxiety to my parents.”

  

  Jan Berry
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Air

• I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Enough
  • Rich
  • Letters

• I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Nice

• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Game
  • Football
  • Boys

• Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Girls
  • Enemies
  • Adversaries

• The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

  

  Wendy Wright
  • Government
  • Wonderful
  • Pregnancy

• The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Success
  • Secret

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Rich
  • Girls
  • Criminals