Chawla Quotes

#1. These ecstatic moments of delight or fear, or both, "radioactive jewels buried within us, emitting energy across the years of our lives," as Chawla eloquently puts it, are most often experienced in nature during formative years.

Richard Louv

#2. What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.

Hillary Clinton

#3. Writing that is not understood is pointless.

Divya Chawla

#4. It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
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Richard Paul Evans

#5. There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

J.B. Priestley

#6. Life has its own flavor.

Juhi Chawla

#7. I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

Larry David

#8. What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

Bill Vaughan

#9. I write when I feel like writing. I write about anything that interests me that moment.

Divya Chawla

#10. Writing is Creating but Creating is Feeling.

Divya Chawla

#11. Write when you Get a Chance but Read at Every Chance.

Divya Chawla

#12. I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

Kalpana Chawla

#13. When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Kalpana Chawla

#14. What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales
the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee
we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

Henry Abbey

#15. No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Satisfaction is like death. The day I'll be satisfied, I'll quit

Juhi Chawla

#17. All writing is feeling.

Divya Chawla

#18. Relations which are not consecrated by the laws establish bonds of kinship as manifold, as complex, even more solid than those which spring from marriage.

Marcel Proust

#19. Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.

Juhi Chawla

#20. This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground.

Kalpana Chawla

#21. I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.

Rameet Chawla

#22. All writing stems from nowhere.

Divya Chawla

#23. You can Save Time with Writing but you can Save a Life by Reading.

Divya Chawla

#24. I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.

George W. Bush

#25. I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

Kalpana Chawla

#26. Caring for others means thinking about others.

Divya Chawla

#27. A Writing Mind is a Creating Mind.

Divya Chawla

#28. The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.

Kalpana Chawla

#29. Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

Kalpana Chawla

#30. The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.

Kalpana Chawla

#31. I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

Jonas Armstrong

#32. Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

Cordelia Fine

#33. Hanna and I have been spending way too much time together. The sex is stale and she's starting to get clingy.

Emma Chase

#34. Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

M. Scott Peck

#35. Kindness is the most beautiful quality a human being can possess.

Divya Chawla

#36. I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

Kalpana Chawla

#37. Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly.

Shashi Tharoor