Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.Catherynne M. Valente
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
M. H. Abrams -
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
Ed Greenwood -
There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
Bebe Rexha -
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V. S. Naipaul -
I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
Olga Fonda
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor -
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
Vernon A. Walters -
I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
Padmasree Warrior -
I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
Nancy Reagan -
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
Abagail Johnson -
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'
Bebe Rexha -
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
Daniel Clowes -
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. Auden -
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
Emily Greene Balch
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I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
Joel Edgerton -
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.
Emmanuelle Beart -
A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.
Charles Kennedy -
Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.
David Whyte -
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.
Catherynne M. Valente