Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne. It's a party, shaking down the dawn.

Catherynne M. Valente

• Party
• Glasses
• Ragtime
• Bubbling
• Choruses
• Plinking

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• I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Eye
  • Glasses

• I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Think
  • Party
  • Tool

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• I'm not a party person.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Party
  • Person

• We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party analysts as the best in the industry; we have industry-leading support with a very large satisfied installed base due to our best-in-class support and development organisations.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Support
  • Party
  • Technology

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Political
  • Party

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Career
  • Party

• I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Party

• I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Party
  • Focus
  • Saying

• 'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Dance

• I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Party

• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • House
  • Education

• The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Different
  • Society
  • Political

• The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • Children
  • Party

• When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Children
  • Quality

• I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believe
  • Afraid
  • Modesty

• When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Up
  • Country
  • Down

• The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

  

  Bonnie Langford

• Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Player

• Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne. It's a party, shaking down the dawn.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Party
  • Glasses
  • Ragtime