Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
-
In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
-
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
-
Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
-
With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
-
Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
-
I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
-
I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
-
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
-
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
-
I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
-
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
-
I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
-
Time, the devourer of all things.
-
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
-
Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
-
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
-
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
-
It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.
-
To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.
-
When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
-
I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.
-
That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
