Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Universe
  • Painting
  • Patterns

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Behind
  • Leading

• Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
  • May
  • Military

• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • News
  • Evening

• I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Actress

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Security

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Kids
  • Military
  • Traveling

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Favorite

• The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Important
  • Women
  • Way

• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • May
  • Running

• I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Equality

• The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Challenge

• Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Saints
  • Sinners

• There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Long

• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Children
  • Cannot
  • Switches