Chulish Quotes & Sayings

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone. — Nicholas Sparks

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. — Jonathan Hickman

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life. — Swami Vivekananda

It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer. — Donal Daly

Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry. — Julia Butler

Since cable got the power and freedom it has, you can explore someone in a way you couldn't in the old days when Mannix was Mannix was Mannix. I thought maybe that Nixon would be an interesting series. — Douglas McGrath

The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu. — Peter Mayle

One unlikely Luddite was also one of the first long-term beneficiaries. Plato (channeling the nonwriter Socrates) warned that this technology meant impoverishment: For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom. — James Gleick

Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page. — Jane Hirshfield

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. — Tim Blake Nelson

Originality is dangerous. — Salman Rushdie

Anna did a double take as the tall brute actually smiled. Perfect white teeth were revealed by his killer grin. — Elena Kincaid