Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?Catherynne M. Valente
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart -
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
Victoria Moran -
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett -
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown -
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama -
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
Ferdinand Mount -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler -
I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
Florence Henderson -
When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack Obama
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
Taryn Simon -
Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
Warren Farrell -
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day -
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
Bertrand Russell -
I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
Kathryn Harrison -
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
Upton Sinclair
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken -
Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West.
Bill Dedman -
...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
Catherynne M. Valente