Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Past
  • Action

• I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Need
  • Mine

• I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Strong

• Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Children
  • American
  • Father

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Right
  • Worked
  • Starbucks

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Moderation

• 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Fun

• My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Single

• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Know
  • Places
  • Uncomfortable

• I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Listening

• I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Job
  • Lost

• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • War
  • Bad
  • Evil

• I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.

  

  Zendaya
  • World
  • Kids
  • Day

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Playing
  • Flying

• I like Higuain very much, but unfortunately, he isn't contributing the way he does in Europe. He's playing very well for Juve and is in the running for a lot of trophies, but if he needs a rest, then why not give Icardi a chance?

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Chance
  • Playing
  • Higuain

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • You
  • Fish
  • Chose