Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Know
  • Down
  • Leverage

• One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Space
  • Air
  • Confidence

• My son is a hip-hop producer.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Son
  • Hip Hop
  • Producer

• In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Canada

• When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Film
  • Safe

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Sick
  • Lazy

• I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.

  

  Laura Bush

• When I was a kid, I was into The New York Jets. And then I got into girls as I got older, and then I got back into the Jets because I'd realized there's times when the girl won't f*^k you, but the Jets will always f*^k you.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Girl

• In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Home

• Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Management

• What is thy thought? There is no miracle? There is a great one, which thou hast not read, And never shalt escape. Thyself, O man, Thou art the miracle. Ay, thou thyself, Being in the world and of the world, thyself, Hast breathed in breath from Him that made the world. Thou art thy Father's copy of Himself,-- Thou art thy Father's miracle.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • World
  • Art
  • Miracle

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I wish I were big.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Wish

• While yonder, wild and blue,the wild blue yonder looms.'Till we are wracked with rheum,by roads, by songs entombed.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Blue

• Men die. It's practically what they're for.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Men
  • Die