Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Washington
  • Mecca

• In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Boy

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • War
  • Understand

• I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Star

• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Live
  • Rise

• I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Future
  • Want
  • Education

• And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

  

  Val Guest
  • She
  • Want
  • Know

• There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Want
  • Fashion
  • Girlfriend

• Out of the 1.2 billion people in India, one-third of them are between the age of 1-14 and by 2030, India will have a dynamic and youthful workforce of about 700 million with an average age of 35. This is expected to constitute a substantial proportion of world's workforce.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • People
  • World
  • Age

• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Different
  • Single

• On a personal note, reaching the World Cup would be something that no one could ever take away from me.

  

  Diego Godin
  • World

• I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • World
  • Long
  • America

• Trying to comfort myself. I tell myself world can't be perfect. I started to let myself go.

  

  J-Hope BTS
  • World
  • Myself
  • Comfort

• Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Health
  • Humanity

• A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

  

  Frank Borman

• Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Want
  • To Be