Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.Catherynne M. Valente
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We continue to be bullish on China.
Carlos Ghosn -
We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
Baba Kalyani -
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Vicki Baum -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Zoe Kazan -
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
Nancy O'Dell -
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson -
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
Fidel Castro -
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando -
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
Ralph Fiennes -
White America is in the minority.
Malcolm X -
Hospitality knows no gender or race.
Danny Meyer -
Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
Pierre Dukan
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
Rachel Nichols -
We're focused on ourselves and winning our games and handling our business. We'll let the chips fall in place.
Antonio Brown -
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Philip Sidney -
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
Klaus Kinski -
That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
Catherynne M. Valente