Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Hard Work

• I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Talk

• Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Weird

• We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Experience
  • Poverty
  • End

• I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Years
  • Loved

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Star
  • Matter

• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Role

• The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Will

• Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Home
  • Christian
  • Born

• When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Know

• God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • God
  • First
  • Paradise

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Voice

• The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Future
  • Lost

• Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Happiness
  • Fair
  • Economists

• A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • You
  • Air

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Thought
  • Years

• Finally, a nation should not regard the progress of industries from a purely economic point of view. Manufactures become a very important part of the nation‘s political and cultural heritage.

  

  Friedrich List
  • Important
  • Political
  • Progress

• There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Alone
  • Always
  • Two