Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • You
  • Rest
  • United States

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • You
  • Understand
  • Said

• It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Two
  • Cartoon

• I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Character
  • Fashion

• I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Grew

• This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Today

• He suspected the troops felt closer to somebody who spoke a different language but asked them questions than they did to somebody who shared their language and only ever used it to give orders.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Different

• Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Sea

• You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Texas

• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Children
  • Silence
  • Cold

• I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

  

  John Anderson
  • High
  • Science
  • Quality

• There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.

  

  Debra Lawrance
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

  

  Daphne du Maurier
  • Men
  • Women

• You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

  

  Percy Ross
  • World
  • Success
  • Powerful

• For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

  

  Patty Murray
  • Strong
  • Value

• Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Party
  • Sea
  • Chinese

• My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Fear
  • Peace

• I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • She
  • Innocent

• All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

  

  Sarah Hall
  • Children
  • Innocent
  • Grows

• You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Innocent
  • To Be
  • Again