Choly Tube Quotes & Sayings

According to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets'
owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising. — Stanislaw Lem

The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency - to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise. — Derek Thompson

I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me. — Channing Tatum

Isaiah said, "I'll need access to Richter's phone for one hour. This is his replacement." "Does it work?" "No. It was impossible for Mark to replicate his contact list, apps, texts, call history. Safer play to swap it for a nonfunctioning phone. It'll power up and display a black screen. What I'm asking isn't easy. I need you to swap his current phone out for this one. Then you're going to have to hand off his phone to my contact at the club. He'll find you, so don't worry about that. Then you have to entertain Richter for an hour while my guy builds the clone. Then you have to switch his real phone back for the fake. — Blake Crouch

The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others. — Bryant McGill

Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores. — Maureen Corrigan

They were spoken in the heat of an unpleasant moment, and not to be taken at face value in any permanent sense. Remember — Jeff Lindsay

Was it even possible to forgive the dead? Was forgiveness an emotion, or a transaction that required a partner? I had made a promise to someone who would never see it kept. I wanted to respect my grandfather's wish, and it would have been no trouble to evade my mother's question. Keeping secrets was the family business. But it was a business, it seemed to me, that none of us had ever profited from. — Michael Chabon

To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way. — Miroslav Volf

If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine. — Kathleen Alcala

Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why. — Anna Quindlen

Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the continued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West. — Robert Fisk

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. — Marcus Aurelius