Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

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• My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Great
  • Way
  • Enjoy

• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Future
  • Humanity

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Pleasures

• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Need

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Woman
  • Feet
  • Maturity

• My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Running
  • Day
  • Single

• What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Together

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

• The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.

  

  Carlos Alvarez
  • Texas
  • Three
  • Brand

• It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Decision

• Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Age
  • Society
  • Recovery

• The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Mind
  • Education

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• If you're just a nice guy - you don't let people walk on you - but if you're just a nice guy and treat people right, good things happen.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • inspirational

• I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Looks

• Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • People
  • World
  • Simple