Clara C (Clara Chung) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
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You don't have to be a house to be haunted.
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The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.
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When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.
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I love going on location, and the location was nice.
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Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'
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The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.
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When in doubt, do something.
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The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.
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The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
