Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
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• A great painting is a great painting.

  

  Larry Poons
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• Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

  

  Ulrich Beck
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• I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
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• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
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• The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Power
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• I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Business
  • Future

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Military
  • Discipline

• Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.

  

  Salman Khan
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  • Week

• Evolving our consciousness is not something we do only for ourselves — it is something we do also for others... for all others, and for the Earth. Because when we open up and let our body and mind feel our ties with others and with nature, we change ourselves, and change others around us. When a sufficient number of people pray or meditate together, or find another path to evolve their consciousness, other people are affected as well. More sick people heal, divorce and suicide rates drop, crime and violence diminish. When many people open up, a powerful force develops — a leap of consciousness takes place. All the great prophets and sages of history knew this, Jesus as well as the Buddha, Mohammed as well as Zoroaster — and more recently Bahá'u'lláh the same as Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard de Chardin and the Dalai Lama.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • You
  • Brain
  • Tattoos

• We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Real
  • Philosophy
  • Tree

• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Want
  • Risk

• Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Love
  • You
  • Philosophy