Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Me
  • Stop

• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good
  • Why
  • Light

• Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Support

• My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Today
  • Feeling

• I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • America
  • Risk

• Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa
  • Believe
  • Broken
  • Lawyer

• If a person perceives a situation as real, it is real in its consequences.

  

  W. I. Thomas
  • Real
  • Situation
  • Perceive

• Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Technology
  • Learning

• The development of American players has been a big part (of MLS). Without a league, there's no inspiration or opportunity.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • American
  • Development
  • Players

• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Enjoy
  • Summer
  • Pleasure

• I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Favorite
  • Summarize

• The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Done
  • Sound
  • Policy

• I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Boy

• The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • World
  • Together
  • Perfect

• If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive

  

  Max Frisch
  • Good

• I saw David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' when I was seven or eight. I told my mom I wanted a Bowie record, so we traveled to the mainland, which was, like, a three-hour trip, and I bought 'Let's Dance' and 'Tonight.' 'Let's Dance' blew my little mind. I became obsessed with it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Mind
  • Mom
  • Dance

• Going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

  

  Barbara Hurd
  • Mind
  • Labyrinth
  • Human Psyche

• Where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Labyrinth
  • Minotaur