Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Important
  • Money
  • Gold

• Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Always
  • Go

• We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Look

• There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Courage

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Courage

• I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dream

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Girl

• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Family
  • Success
  • Foundation

• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Logic

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • Live
  • Job

• My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Harmony

• It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • School
  • High
  • Read

• I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Vain
  • Gentlemen
  • Sparrows

• I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Thinking
  • Hands
  • Scar

• He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

  

  William Congreve
  • Firsts
  • Cry
  • Thieves

• Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Firsts
  • Cry
  • Mascara

• ...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Cry
  • Her
  • Catches