Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.

  

  Edith Head
  • Live
  • Home
  • Building

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Cool

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Live
  • Why
  • America

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Future
  • Audience
  • Engagement

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Long
  • Society
  • Exploring

• In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Looking

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Brain
  • Only

• I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Music
  • Character

• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Same

• If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Find

• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

  

  Moliere
  • Occasion
  • Indulge
  • Frenchmen

• I always wanted to play for AC Milan or Real Madrid. Real Madrid, of course, because when I was young, the players that played there were the top players. I was looking at Real Madrid as the best of the best. And AC Milan, they also had good players when I was young, so I looked at AC Milan the same way as Real Madrid.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Good
  • Real

• Turn your nightmares into your dreams , some dreams don't turn out the way you want them to , then wake up and turn and turn it around in your favour.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Up
  • Dreams
  • Wake Up

• I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Work
  • Different
  • Children

• I'm not super traditional at all.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini

• It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Energy
  • Waste
  • Woods