Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • House
  • Kind
  • Wood

• I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Lost

• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Napoleon

• We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Want
  • Me
  • Talk

• I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Weigh

• Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Money
  • Idea

• Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Model
  • Class
  • Lingerie

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Simple
  • Couple
  • Risk

• I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Love
  • Beach

• I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Care
  • Because

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Looking
  • Shock

• I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • She
  • Child

• Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Why
  • Day
  • Sports

• Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Courage
  • Generosity
  • Seasons

• I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Love
  • Habit
  • Emotions

• The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Never
  • Trouble

• All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Question
  • Trust
  • Trails

• In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, illustrating the dynamism of the U.S. labor market.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Jobs
  • Leaving
  • Workers

• Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Praise
  • Seek

• A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Body
  • Trouble
  • Blame