That's part of farming; you just have to deal with what you have. Every year is different.


Joe Valente

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO
That's what goes with who you are, how much you make, all of that. It's part of the equation, unfort...
JOE TORRE
What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE
Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you hav...
AGNES BRUCKNER
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
BJORK
It seems like every title shot I have to go overseas, ... It's part of the job, just like a black ey...
JULIO GONZALEZ
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every mor...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.
I have a Disability yes thats true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly diffe...
ROBERT M. HENSEL
Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER
Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH
It's a big nut to crack - this kind of crime is everywhere, in every city throughout the U.S.. It co...
ED OSBORNE
Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons it...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI
If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI
In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU
The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU
We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU
You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.
FRANK PERMUY
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a...
MARVIN HARRIS
My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?
GRACE DRAVEN
What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That'...
ELLE FANNING
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
That kind of grief is different to deal with because it's not like when you know someone is sick. Wh...
LIZ BROWN
It's fundamental to what we do. You put a nail in wood. You have a safety meeting. It's just part of...
JOSEPHINA FREGOSO
When you coach different sports, you have to deal with athletes and parents. But with the Special Ol...
FREDDIE TAYLOR
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
We play teams that cut block. It's something you have to deal with. It's part of the game.
JOEY PORTER
What you read, and what you have watched and what you have listened is just the few from all... You ...
DEYTH BANGER
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
NOLAN RYAN
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the s...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES
Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and gettin...
ZACHERY TY BRYAN
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long ...
KATE MOSSE
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the sa...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES
It's going to be a long series so you just have to keep going after every loss you take. Every night...
KURTIS MUCHA
How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD
It's just the business part of it with everybody moving around from year to year. You have the salar...
IKE HILLIARD
Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and gettin...
ZACHARY TY BRYAN
Paul and Joe have had a massive influence on how much I love my job. I've come to learn that hockey ...
DALLAS EAKINS
We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?
JAIME PRESSLY
You can't complain about what we're doing if you don't go out and have a part. That's the big deal.
BOB MATTHEWS
You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have n...
ERIC ROTH
Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants....
KARRINE STEFFANS
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with differ...
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
The instincts and reaction and having to move - that's what football is. You have to learn how t...
ERIC BERRY
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reactio...
KUSHAL PAL SINGH
Lack can greatly be the reason for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack, ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Lack can greatly be the reasons for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack,...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just hav...
TIM TEBOW
Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you ...
DESTINY BOOZE
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
KURT MASUR
You just deal what you're dealt with.
CAROL WEST
So many people have pumpkins, you can go to every grocery store in the county, some gas stations, fa...
AARON LEWIS
It seems like you have to make decisions earlier every year. When I first started farming, we wouldn...
GARY PORTER
Growing up in the city you have an idea of cops and it's not positive at all so I think it definitel...
CHAY LEE
Every experience you have been through has taught you a lesson. You just have to realize what it is ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g...
JANE KRAKOWSKI
There's a lot happening in many of us. I think you have to celebrate every part. It's what you are. ...
CASSANDRA WILSON
You saw them starting to deal with the void of what domestic airlines have been offering.
ALBERT HERRERA
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is dif...
STEVE CASE
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience...
DAVID HENRY HWANG
There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they&...
JOHNNY BENCH
Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.
TORI AMOS
Snow is definitely a big deal and every year is a little different. That's why it's cheaper.
BRUCE ROSARD
The best part is you always have friends around, no matter what. It's either one, two or all three o...
AL HORFORD
As with every other age and the technologies that are developed, there are vulnerabilities you have ...
DANIEL KUEHL
It's like a totally different level here. It's a different game, you've just got to adjust to it. Th...
JUSTIN SMOAK
Appreciate what you have, because someone else is wishing for it.
KARON WADDELL
If it wasn't for life, I wouldn't have you.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
I'm just worried about the people we have right now. We have to deal with what we have and keep work...
JOSH DUNCAN
Sure, it's real tough without Curtis and Joe. But you can't worry about it. You just have to keep wo...
GREG KIMBER
Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
ANNE RICE
We're not here to embarrass anybody. The games you should win you have to win big. That's part of th...
JUSTIN BLALOCK
When you consider the number of acres we have irrigated (about 100,000), that's just phenomenal. Tha...
EARL MCPHAIL
They say the backup quarterback is everybody's best friend out there. But that's part of being a qua...
ANTHONY MORELLI
The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.
JESSE PLEMONS
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK
To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY
There's so much of it about. You have to deal with the bigger problem, not just blame her.
KATE MOSS
It was just two guys fighting for the ball. He caught me with his elbow at one point but it's no big...
DANIEL HERNANDEZ
If you play every day, you won't see any improvement, ... Any time you play, you put pressure on it....
ARAMIS RAMIREZ
In the game of football, there's a lot of passion involved. To have a young man missing from your fa...
JEFF CORDELL
That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you...
BRANDON SANDERSON
What we have to do is build on what we did last year. But we have to do it with a different set of c...
FRANK CHUMBLEY
There have been some parallels. Although, I think every year is different.
AMY PATTON
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
Hopefully, we'll have it at the end of the season. And we'll have to earn that. Every year, that's w...
JOE ROSS
Government financing is varied and so interesting. You have so many different accounting methods dep...
DEBORAH GILBERT
Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT
I definitely think we have what it takes to make the playoffs. We've had injuries, we've had differe...
MATT HARPRING
Injecting insulin is far more precise in the sense of, what you want to deliver you deliver. You don...
DR. NATHANIEL CLARK
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with ...
ALEX HALEY
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with ...
ALEX HALEY
That's hockey. You have to deal with some stuff, so you might as well learn to deal with it.
ANDREW LADD
It does have a lot of pressure, but that's what we learn to deal with during the season. That's what...
JEFF LIGGINS
It trickles back every year. The virus is here to stay and we're just doing everything we can to dea...
CODY ALCOTT
What the schedule says is what you have to do. You have to deal with it. Coming out of spring traini...
JIM TRACY

More Joe Valente

He asked to borrow my (cell) phone. When he handed it back, it was full of blood.
JOE VALENTE
Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked an...
BENITA VALENTE
Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
BENITA VALENTE
Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as lon...
BENITA VALENTE
We're Kansas and the other side is Oz. People think no one lives here. But this is a really active n...
LYNN VALENTE
I want to come out of my house and see kids and people enjoying themselves. I grew up in the Marina....
LYNN VALENTE
We want a vibrant neighborhood. We want to activate this big, scary empty space.
LYNN VALENTE
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Te...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And the funny, impish magic of a wrap party is that everyone still has scraps of their characters ha...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tal...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alo...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they mu...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally d...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lie...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You gotta be nice to strangers even when they are the worst, because they don't know you well enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your blac...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about lockin...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A Wyvern’s body is different from the body of a young girl in several major respects. First, it ha...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No one knows themselves very well. Who has the time these days? Have you been formally introduced to...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt any...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a po...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I wi...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons an...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Lebedeva’s eyes shone. “Masha, listen to me. Cosmetics are an extension of the will. Why do you ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.”

Th...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
1. Santa Claus is real. However, your parents are folkloric constructs meant to protect and foritfy ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing,...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happe...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontie...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency an...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always sur...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and m...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or usef...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wonde...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
But this is a story,
and in a story
there is always someone
beautiful enough."
<...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them."
"They...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she i...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
If you are a monster, stand up.
If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend,
If you’ve bu...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Because she did not look behind, September did not see the smoky-glass casket close itself primly up...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
8. Santa Claus is concerned about the problem of Arctic ice. The ice is the spouse of the elves, and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whethe...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a h...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afr...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on w...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kiss...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a que...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like th...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel b...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And then she felt her Ell’s great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in her...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high am...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have missed you so much I could kiss you,” he whispered.

September’s face fell. “...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it is...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ear...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has h...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Cats don’t have dark sides. That’s all a shadow is—and though you might be prejudiced against ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Shows what you know, sunny-girl! I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about their Heart’s Desire�...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thi...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her ches...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew ver...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to o...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wick...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another hear...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it ne...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of m...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove i...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that i...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No good thing can last forever, because people are terrible and we have this feeling, we all have th...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Even if you hadn't entirely deposed (and possibly killed) not one but two governments and d...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to res...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Fate is a woman, I said to them. In fact, she is three women. Young, like us, so that they will have...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’m not a Knight. I’m a Bishop. Or at least I am trying to be. And traveling with you is the mos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
All things are strange which are worth knowing.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And there’s nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of can...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Men die. It's practically what they're for.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Ma...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they we...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a jo...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on an...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Robots are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys won't do;
the memesoup is all wrong. The...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Have you never known a cruel wind? What an easy, balmy, tropical life you must have! I never tease, ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I'm very touchy feely with my fandom, in part because they've never done me wrong or hurt me...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell wa...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
This is my heart—carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my t...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Recite the Periodic Table of Teatime, in correct order, with Elemental Symbols, please.'
A-Thro...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
When she spoke, the words were rote, taught to her by her captors, dead and empty, and forced. But h...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. V...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider m...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Well," the Marsh King pursed his beak politely, "at any rate, your manliness need only last for a re...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smil...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself li...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!"
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. A...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You think I am so wicked, don't you? A monster. Unnatural. How cruel of me to keep you here and ratt...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leuc...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you be...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You wanted Death? This is it. Dirt and decay, nothing more. Death translates us all into earth.” H...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new...
CATHERYNNE M VALENTE
Your Eve was wise, John. She knew that Paradise would make her mad, if she were to live forever with...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew unti...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.
Nothing to brag on,
but enough for y...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cann...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometime...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incr...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They'...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story?
SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widow...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girl...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am not a toy, September! Fairyland cannot just cast me aside when it’s finished playing with me!...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God.
JOE JOE DAWSON
Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to...
JOE JOE DAWSON
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN
I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a re...
JOE FRAZIER
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
JOE THEISMANN
If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn...
JOE BIDEN
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must ...
JOE LIEBERMAN
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understand...
JOE TORRE
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shou...
JOE SLOVO
So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'...
JOE ARPAIO
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
JOE PATERNO
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profes...
JOE PATERNO
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ...
JOE WURZELBACHER
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through...
JOE CRAFT
If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS
Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
JOE SLOVO
After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas t...
JOE NAMATH
I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
JOE WILSON
Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
FAT JOE
I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect ...
FAT JOE
I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a h...
FAT JOE
Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get h...
FAT JOE
If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE