Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
Quotes to Explore
-
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
-
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
-
My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
-
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
-
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
-
I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
-
After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
-
Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
-
I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
-
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
-
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
-
I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
-
There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
-
The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
-
Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.
-
Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
-
I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
-
So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.
-
I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.
-
I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.
-
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
-
I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
-
In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
