Chuming Quotes & Sayings

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. — Jilly Cooper

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself. — Emile M. Cioran

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio. — Mos Def

It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy. — Kate Pierson

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking. — Terence McKenna

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming, she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear. — Amy Tan

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed? — Bob Kane

Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do.-RVM — R.v.m.

At the core of every successful conversation lies the free flow of relevant information. — Kerry Patterson

You wanna play hardball, sweetheart? Welcome to the big leagues. — K. Bromberg

201. - He who thinks he has the power to content the world greatly deceives himself, but he who thinks that the world cannot be content with him deceives himself yet more. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. — Brian Greene

Familiarity reduces insecurity, so we feel more comfortable describing and combating the risks we think we understand: terrorists, immigrants, job loss or crime. But the true sources of insecurity in decades to come will be those that most of us cannot define: dramatic climate change and its social and environmental effects; imperial decline and its attendant 'small wars'; collective political impotence in the face of distant upheavals with disruptive local impact. These are the threats that chauvinist politicians will be best placed to exploit, precisely because they lead so readily to anger and humiliation. — Tony Judt