Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Histories are instruments of oppression.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Universe
  • Seems
  • Neither

• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy

• People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Glasses
  • Diamonds
  • Pearls

• One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Want
  • Doing
  • New York

• If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • You
  • English

• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Up
  • World
  • Thought

• I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

  

  Neko Case
  • Time
  • House
  • Free

• It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Life
  • Fate

• You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Average

• Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Shoes
  • Pedestal
  • Platforms

• When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

  

  Epictetus
  • Theatre
  • Wise Men
  • Airs

• It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

  

  William P. Young
  • Action
  • Remarkable
  • Insignificant

• You're the best athlete I've seen in high school.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • School
  • High
  • Athlete

• We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Realize
  • Tragedy
  • Foundation

• Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

  

  Diogenes
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy
  • Teach

• Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Efficiency
  • Effectiveness

• As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just amazing to get to work on your art on a daily basis and do what you love.

  

  Josh Holloway
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Jazz

• The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.

  

  Alvin Plantinga
  • View
  • Philosopher
  • Irrelevant

• Histories are instruments of oppression.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Instruments
  • Oppression
  • Histories