Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.

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• To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Important
  • Children
  • Family

• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • American
  • Think
  • Chicago

• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Married

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Woman
  • Suffering
  • Choices

• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Soul
  • Security
  • Losing

• I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Hand
  • Candy

• Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Artist
  • Only
  • Beyonce

• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Look
  • Too

• I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.

  

  Ramakrishna

• If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.

  

  Maimonides
  • Knowledge

• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Daughter

• I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Heart

• I was a simple kid who was thrown into the wonderful world of show business. I've loved every moment. These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version - but only if it’s funnier.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • World
  • Business
  • Remember

• The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Age
  • Present
  • Identity

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Working
  • Architects

• But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Words
  • Persons
  • Secret