Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.Catherynne M. Valente
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
Zack Greinke -
Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
Orlando Bloom -
I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
Harold E. Hughes -
I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
Warren Spector
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel -
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
Park Geun-hye -
That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
Eden Hazard -
Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
Sam Graves
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
Natalie Coughlin -
I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
Ram Dass -
Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.
Ferdinand Foch -
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus -
In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.
Matthew Desmond -
I'm quite happy having stuff like quinoa, sushi, and even vegetable juices.
Deepika Padukone
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
Sophocles -
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
Aaron Koblin -
When you win one on this day, they become special ones and they get a special place in the barn. We've been blessed with some good ones.
D. Wayne Lukas -
Republican politics can sometimes feel like you're walking into, you know, an Elks Club or bachelor party.
Kellyanne Conway -
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
Catherynne M. Valente