Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• I'm a giant Beatles fan.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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  • Giant

• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
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• Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
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• As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
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• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
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• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Tyranny
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• If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Week
  • Gym
  • Just

• When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Responsibility

• I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Friends

• As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Trying
  • High
  • Black

• A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Good
  • Bad

• What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Friends

• No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Relationship
  • Gentleman

• It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Believe

• As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Kids
  • Cool

• When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Action
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  • Hero

• The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Name

• I was mortified by my parents - what they did, who they were, everything. I hated who I was. I hated everything, and I would live in a fantasy world and try to be different. But that's not a lot different, I think, than a lot of kids.

  

  Amy Hill
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• It doth repent me; words are quick and vain; Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Words
  • Grief

• I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Black
  • Loved

• ... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Read