Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • End
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  • Train

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
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  • Something

• Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Beautiful
  • Nothing
  • Europe

• There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Singing
  • Goal
  • Professional

• Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Long
  • Cute

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Understanding
  • Unknown
  • Random

• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Long
  • Success
  • Wish

• 'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Men
  • Doubt

• 'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • She
  • Legend

• You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

  

  Anthony Bourdain

• Life is everything and nothing all at once.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Life

• Cada uno creo que sus cosas no son como todo las cosas de este mundo. Y es por ello que cada uno tiene sus cosas.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Son

• I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Up
  • Action

• There is no greater love than a maker’s for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Love
  • Things

• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time

• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Good
  • Light
  • Waiting

• This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Light
  • Deep
  • Hearts