Arlene J. Chai famous quotes

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.
-- Arlene J. Chai

#Air #Space #Missing

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
-- Arlene J. Chai

#Hate #Heart #Animal

Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.
-- Arlene J. Chai

#Passion #Matter #Lasts

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.
-- Arlene J. Chai

#Lying #Taken #Cities

Watch it...people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease...all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.
-- Arlene J. Chai

#Cancer #Emotional #People

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.
-- Arlene J. Chai

#Cities #Sides #Rich

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Am I missing an eyebrow?

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....