Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

The colours of the glass throw blue and green onto her wet cheeks. The sea wind picks up her hair violet electrics snap and sparkle between the strands.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• Don't trust anyone over 30.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Trust
  • Over
  • Anyone

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Business
  • Future

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Substitute

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Special

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • True
  • Animal

• We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.

  

  Iman
  • World
  • Want
  • Girl

• To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reading

• I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • Writing
  • Sleep

• I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Gratitude

• Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Bible
  • Doctors
  • Psychoanalysts

• Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Country
  • English
  • Language

• Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Done
  • Art

• The colours of the glass throw blue and green onto her wet cheeks. The sea wind picks up her hair violet electrics snap and sparkle between the strands.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Hair
  • Wind
  • Glass