Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
Quotes to Explore
-
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
-
I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
-
I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
-
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
-
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
-
I've always been fond of acoustic music.
-
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
-
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
-
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
-
When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
-
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
-
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
-
I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
-
I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
-
Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
-
Panic is a horrible thing.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
-
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
-
'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
-
I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
-
It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
-
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
-
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
