Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.

Catherynne M. Valente

• World
• See
• Whole
• Queerness
• Hhave To Be

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Father
  • Fantastic
  • Brothers

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Hair
  • Rip
  • T-shirt

• I'm evangelical.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Evangelical

• Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Same

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Painting

• I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Time
  • World
  • Think

• I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Writing
  • Fighting
  • Use

• I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Day
  • Best
  • Husband

• It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Important

• Rufus because my diaphragm gets a workout while trying to utilize the 18 vocal sounds a mole makes. Chuckie because ... he's an asthmatic with five personalities rolled into one-plus I have to do the voice the way Christine Cavanaugh did it for 10 years.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Trying
  • Workout

• The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Style

• Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac

• We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Truth
  • Wish
  • Fall

• Life is life, so try to enjoy it. You only have one life.

  

  Ivana Trump
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • One

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • See
  • Whole