Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Time
  • School
  • Small

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Reality

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Language
  • Matter

• Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Interesting
  • Animals
  • Cows

• I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Family
  • Community
  • Question

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • True
  • Mother

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Price
  • Cost

• I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Life
  • Game
  • College

• I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Tired
  • Author

• The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Talking

• The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Women
  • Best
  • Group

• He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

  

  Confucius
  • Intelligent
  • Statements
  • Soaks

• Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

  

  William Barclay
  • Prayer
  • Situation
  • Terrible

• To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!

  

  Spider Robinson
  • May
  • Enough
  • Fool

• For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Humanity
  • Goals
  • Answer

• I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heart
  • You
  • Enough