Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
Catherynne M. Valente
Quotes to Explore
-
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
Yulia Tymoshenko
-
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert
-
I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
Patricia Heaton
-
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
M.I.A.
-
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly
-
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
-
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington
-
On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
Victor LaValle
-
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Yayoi Kusama
-
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
Abu Bakr
-
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
-
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Jack LaLanne
-
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel
-
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
Warren Bennis
-
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Gail Sheehy
-
I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
J. B. Pritzker
-
The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
Ramez Naam
-
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge
-
I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.
Jenna Dewan
-
Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!
M.I.A.
-
We are much better at writing code than haiku.
Matt Mullenweg
-
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer
-
When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.
Leon Russell
-
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
Catherynne M. Valente
