Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can’t kiss a girl into anything.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Women
  • France

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Political
  • Numbers
  • Data

• Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Together
  • City

• There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Finisher

• I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Need
  • Criminal
  • Hunt

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Moving
  • Development
  • Prison

• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • World
  • May

• Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Great
  • Success
  • Fear

• Everything great glitters, glitter begets ambition, and ambition can easily have caused the inspiration or what we thought to be inspiration. But reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition. He tumbles where his vehement drive calls him; no longer does he choose his position, but rather chance and luster determine it.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Inspiration
  • Ambition
  • Glitter

• Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Evil
  • Prince
  • Bubbles

• For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Art
  • Experience
  • History

• Day by day, we let love just walk awayAnd I'll be the first to say, I was glad to see it goAnd day by day, ever since you went awayI'm finding I'm still missing you, and I just got to know...Does that blue moon ever shine on you?I wanna hold you close to me, feel just like it used to be.And baby, if you feel like I do,You can come to me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Baby
  • Moon
  • Blue

• I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Drawing
  • Kiss

• When rain has hung the leaves with tears I want you near to kill my fears, To help me to leave all my blues behind. For standin' in your heart Is where I want to be And long to be, Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

  

  Donovan
  • Long
  • Heart
  • May

• What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Imagery
  • Myths
  • Baroque

• Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can’t kiss a girl into anything.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Kiss
  • Snow White
  • Wakes Up