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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• Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
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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

• I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Feel
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• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• 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
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  • Look
  • Dating

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• 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

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• 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

• There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • School
  • Me

• 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

• I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Drinking

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

  

  Jack McDevitt

• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • Humanity

• I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• When you reach a point of no return with someone and you feel there's going to be no reconciliation, you have to disconnect. I can't allow myself to be emotionally connected with people like that again, it's too damaging.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Reconciliation

• I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.

  

  Nan Goldin

• 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