Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friend
  • Look
  • Dating

• Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Time
  • Same
  • Blow

• There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Trying
  • Cooperation

• I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Back

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Humility
  • Come

• I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Brave

• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Business
  • America
  • Hope

• How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

  

  Jack McDevitt

• There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Game
  • Stop
  • Passion

• Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Moving
  • Destiny

• My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • She
  • Career
  • Wife

• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • Respect
  • Army
  • Drug

• I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Moving

• Friendship is the most important thing of all.

  

  Kim Philby
  • Important
  • Friendship

• If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Up
  • Good
  • America

• As far as I know, one of the present promoters of Rocklahoma is a big BONFIRE fan since the 80’s, when we last played the US. So he just contacted us and asked us if we would be interested to play this awesome festival, which is also well known over here (in Germany). Of course we said yes, because we have not been to the US since that time and it will be a big honor for us to rock you guys.

  

  Claus Lessmann Bonfire
  • Fan
  • U.S.
  • Festival

• I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Influenced

• Those five members of the Supreme Court found a nonsensical distinction; that doesn't mean that Florida state legislators or state supreme court judges are required to play the semantic games that Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia did to reach the result they desired.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Games
  • Reach
  • Members

• There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • City
  • Waiting
  • Loves