Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Know
  • I Can

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Know
  • Chicago
  • Weather

• I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Question
  • Imagination
  • Sex

• Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Taken

• Until the artist is dead, we are not able to determine his work in all its dimensions.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Work

• I had to go through so much trial and error to get all the whack-ness out of my system as a kid. I think everybody has to do that. You have to go through a period of failing in order to get better at it - whatever you're doing.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Period

• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • School
  • Future
  • Psychology

• Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Political
  • Control
  • Gun

• A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

  

  Fred Allen

• In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek historian and we showed him the movie because I wanted him to write a forward to the Making Of book. I was a little nervous to be honest, because I wasn't sure how he'd react.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Book
  • Smile

• Camped on a tropic riverside,One day he missed his loving bride.She had, the guide informed him later,Been eaten by an alligator.Professor Twist could not but smile.'You mean,' he said, 'a crocodile.'

  

  Ogden Nash
  • She
  • Smile

• The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Wonder
  • Son
  • Smile

• Let me say it again. I don't believe in black majority rule ever in Rhodesia-not in a thousand years. I repeat that I believe in blacks and whites working together. If one day it is white and the next day it is black, I believe we have failed and it will be a disaster for Rhodesia.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Black

• Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Smile
  • Spotlight
  • Mary's