Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When you don’t need anything anymore, the only thing you need is stories, and songs, and beauty, and spectacle. That’s the good stuff. The stuff that reminds us who we are.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
-
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
-
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
-
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
-
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
-
When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
-
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
-
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
-
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
-
At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
-
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
-
I like to travel by myself.
-
Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
-
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
-
I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
-
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
-
Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
-
I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
-
I was inspired by all the images coming out of New Orleans.
-
When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
-
All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
-
When you don’t need anything anymore, the only thing you need is stories, and songs, and beauty, and spectacle. That’s the good stuff. The stuff that reminds us who we are.
