Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.

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• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • War
  • Media

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Up
  • Friends
  • True

• In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Beautiful
  • Dreams
  • Green

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Living
  • Europe
  • Australia

• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Square

• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Star
  • Theatre

• 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Live
  • Walking
  • Hill

• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Lead
  • Street
  • Warm

• I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Courage
  • Ambition

• Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Feeling
  • Mean
  • Angry

• Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Place
  • Many
  • Jackets

• Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Write

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Want
  • Flying
  • Talk

• The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Important
  • Picture
  • September

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Car

• The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Time
  • Failure
  • Patriotism

• My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• "I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Look
  • Green
  • September