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
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• I'm a giant Beatles fan.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Fan
  • Beatles
  • 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

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

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Wealth
  • Tax

• 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
  • Small
  • Me

• 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
  • Women
  • Happy

• 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
  • Bad

• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Tyranny
  • Multitude

• 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
  • Pain
  • Hero

• When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Eyes

• You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy.

  

  Drake
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Rap

• I was actually going to law school in 1972.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • School
  • Law

• Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Women
  • Country
  • Reality

• ... 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