Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

All witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.

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• If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Eighty

• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Again
  • Once
  • Arrogance

• My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Guy
  • Friend
  • Smart

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Want
  • House
  • Man

• My work is a game, a very serious game.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Work
  • Game
  • Serious

• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single
  • Moments

• Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.

  

  David Shields
  • Good
  • Professional

• And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Dead
  • Ever
  • Returning

• I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Realize

• It's all mostly effort when it comes to this game. Maybe some of the younger guys don't have that sense of urgency we obviously need to win basketball games. I think as far as talent we have enough to get over the hump.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Effort
  • Basketball

• You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Friends
  • Brother
  • Door

• Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

  

  Carl Cohen
  • Government
  • Lives
  • Led

• Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.

  

  Brooke Ellison
  • People
  • Lives
  • Miracles

• We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.

  

  Hasan M. Elahi
  • Lives
  • Archive

• All witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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