Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I heard there’s fire in hell, but I’ll bet the devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain’t gonna clean itself.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Devil
• Hell
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• Get Moving

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• I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • United States
  • Senator
  • Supporters

• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fight

• I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

  

  Ilya Yashin
  • Leave
  • Here
  • Predict

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Worship

• Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Men
  • Gold

• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• 'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • March

• That day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• It takes two to speak the truth, - one to speak, and another to hear.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Truth

• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Up
  • Day
  • End

• A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

  

  Jim Murphy
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Harvard is the home of American ideas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • American
  • Ideas

• I heard there’s fire in hell, but I’ll bet the devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain’t gonna clean itself.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Fire
  • Devil
  • Hell