Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Water
  • Walking
  • Creativity

• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Badminton is not a popular sport in India.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Popular
  • India
  • Badminton

• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Friend

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Either

• To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Work
  • Children
  • Fun

• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Game
  • Emotions
  • Behavior

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• It takes the fuel away from your endless, driving self-criticism. You will eventually be able to see more clearly that some things in life are less important than you had thought, and find it easier to let go of over-caring about them. You will find that the energy that they have been consuming can be used to treat yourself and the world more generously.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Forever
  • Never
  • End

• I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Child

• I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.

  

  Josh Gordon
  • Athletes
  • Spotlight
  • Locker Room

• Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Things
  • End
  • Grief