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 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

• My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • She
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Soul
  • Floating
  • Users

• There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me but now I know your heart is shackled to a memory The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift apart Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The way he looked at her made her heart thump, her breath catch. For a second, those dark eyes seemed to have no end to them, as if she were looking into a hall of mirrors and seeing reflection upon reflection echoing into infinity.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Breath

• 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