Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
-
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
-
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
-
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
-
Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
-
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
-
Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
-
I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
-
LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
-
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-
We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
-
Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
-
Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
-
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
-
Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
-
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
-
I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
-
Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
-
My favorite movies are movies from the '70s, like 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and to me, 'Hereditary' seemed like it fit in with those movies, and it was just horrifying. It seemed like it took the things that I love about movies and really fleshed out characters.
-
It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'
-
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
-
Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.
