Chu Quotes

#1. I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Jared Taylor

#2. The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured.

Gene Luen Yang

#3. What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3

Karen Armstrong

#4. Pikachu, 'pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse.

Satoshi Tajiri

#5. He shook his head. Just - beware of Mr. Chu. He makes Itex look like Sesame Street.

James Patterson

#6. Pain fades," I said slowly. "But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?" The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu's face blazing with fury.

James Patterson

#7. Little clue: wasted on me." "What?" "I'm into girls." "Oh. Oh!" Chu said. "Right. Got it. That's cool. I've got a cousin who's gay. Amy Liu. Know her?" Jennifer laughed. "Oh, sure. I'll just look her up in the Big Book of Lesbians. We get a copy of that with the purchase of our first flannel shirt.

Libba Bray

#8. In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.

Matsuo Basho

#9. 'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.

Gene Luen Yang

#10. Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv
I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu
And there ain't nothin nobody can say cuz
You're the one for me baby

Da Brat

#11. Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

Tim Vine

#12. Boys' connections - to other people and to their selves - can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

Judy Chu

#13. So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

Steven Chu

#14. If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Chin-Ning Chu

#15. You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Chin-Ning Chu

#16. Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.

Chin-Ning Chu

#17. Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.

Jon M. Chu

#18. The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

Steven Chu

#19. The world spins despite me, not because of me, he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was an email and eulogy sent by one of the managers - and then a mad scramble by everyone else to loot his office supplies.

Wesley Chu

#20. Roen said, I can't quit. I have rent, and a cat to support.

Wesley Chu

#21. Smitt walked up next to James and watched the planet slowly grow larger. They say the water used to be so blue you could see it from space.

Wesley Chu

#22. Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.

Jon M. Chu

#23. To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

Chin-Ning Chu

#24. This whole alien-in-his-body was starting to sound better and better. First, he got to hang out with a hot girl, and now he was going to be James Bond.

Wesley Chu

#25. I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Steven Chu

#26. I was being chase by half a dozen guys at the time. Didn't have time to stop and admire the craftsmanship. There was a Ming vase there?
I believe so. You smashed it over someone's head, picked up a shard, and stabbed another in the chest with it.
Ah, good times.

Wesley Chu

#27. My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

Steven Chu

#28. Would you rather pay the extra charge or die?

Wesley Chu

#29. Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

Steven Chu

#30. Besides, criminal masterminds are people too. They need groceries and cable like the rest of us.

Wesley Chu

#31. If I find out that you wasted the best years of my little girl's life because of your fine-wine-aging process, I'm going to kill you.

Wesley Chu

#32. When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.

Arthur Chu

#33. You want to change the world? Now is your chance! Go show this bastard what you are made of!

Wesley Chu

#34. Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

Steven Chu

#35. I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Steven Chu

#36. While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.

Steven Chu

#37. I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.

Jon M. Chu

#38. All that we have built, we have put into humanity. And it will be you, our children, who can cut us down. And I cannot blame you if you do.

Wesley Chu

#39. I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

Jon M. Chu

#40. Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.

Jeff Chu

#41. You're never going to satisfy everybody.

Jon M. Chu

#42. Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

Judy Chu

#43. I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Jon M. Chu

#44. I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

Jon M. Chu

#45. By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation ... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

Chin-Ning Chu

#46. I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [ ... ] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

Steven Chu

#47. I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

Jon M. Chu

#48. Whoever said a good agreement was a compromise neither side was completely happy with just had poor negotiators.

Wesley Chu

#49. I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.

Jon M. Chu

#50. For abyss's sake, how many damn times do you have to wander off and get in trouble before you learn your lesson?

Wesley Chu

#51. When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the
person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good
you can be.

Chin-Ning Chu

#52. I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Steven Chu

#53. What always gives me peace of mind is that the best are the best. People who float to the top will always float to the top.

Jon M. Chu

#54. The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge,

Steven Chu

#55. Reminiscing is when one is thinking about the past. What you are dreaming about never happened. The word for that is fantasizing.

Wesley Chu

#56. For a lot of geeks, gaming is all about stripping who you are completely and entering this imaginary space, this world that's made for you, where winning and losing have nothing to do with real life.

Arthur Chu

#57. Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Chin-Ning Chu

#58. Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

Arthur Chu

#59. I had my doubts at first. You were an out-of-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills. Now you are an in-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills.

Wesley Chu

#60. Tao, I think I love her. She's hot and a geek. She is so far out of your league that you are not even playing the same sport.

Wesley Chu

#61. I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

Jon M. Chu

#62. Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I've been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices ... So, of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up; we want it to go down.

Steven Chu

#63. At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.

Judy Chu

#64. It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

Arthur Chu

#65. Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

Steven Chu

#66. Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

Jon M. Chu

#67. Since then, he watched the man live his completely stifling life over and over again, one repetitive day at a time. It was so consistent that Roen even complained about the same things at the same times every day.

Wesley Chu

#68. I'll always wait for you. However long it takes

Wesley Chu

#69. There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

Steven Chu

#70. I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

Jon M. Chu

#71. In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

Chin-Ning Chu

#72. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Steven Chu

#73. The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Chin-Ning Chu

#74. Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

Steven Chu

#75. You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

Chin-Ning Chu

#76. As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Steven Chu

#77. If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage ... we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

Steven Chu

#78. The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.

Jon M. Chu

#79. I take that back. Saying you fight like a girl is an insult to girls everywhere.

Wesley Chu

#80. You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there.

Wesley Chu

#81. I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody.

Jon M. Chu

#82. I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?

Steven Chu

#83. If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Chin-Ning Chu

#84. Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

Chin-Ning Chu

#85. A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Chin-Ning Chu

#86. The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a website that tests your reaction time and verified this to my satisfaction.

Arthur Chu

#87. Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Chin-Ning Chu

#88. Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

Steven Chu

#89. Coal is My Worst Nightmare.

Steven Chu

#90. Explain to me how this is fun: thirty minutes in line, thirty dollars to get in, ten minutes to work your way down here, ten more saying hi to people I can tell you barely know, and now fifteen minutes ordering a beer that costs twice what it should. You just lost an hour of your life.

Wesley Chu

#91. This was the second time James had told her to stay still and she had ignored his command.

Wesley Chu

#92. Do not judge an entire species based on the actions of their worst few. That is the trait of the Genjix. The Prophus choose to look at the best of humanity.

Wesley Chu

#93. Really, Roen Tan? Do you actually think pizza makes you hear voices?

Wesley Chu

#94. Anything, anything at all can be logical. For something to be logical, it just has to be a valid example of reasoning from some set of premises.

Mark C. Chu-Carroll

#95. If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

Steven Chu

#96. From the beginning, the internet has been dominated by white men. So if you wanted to be a part of the internet and you weren't a white man, you had to adapt yourself to their world.

Arthur Chu

#97. Oh come on. You treat her like a Greek goddess and act like a lap dog around her. It is embarrassing.

Wesley Chu

#98. Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

Chin-Ning Chu

#99. When I'm doing more than one movie because it makes one not the end of the world. It makes me feel like, "Okay, I won. I had a victory on this one, today. And I lost on this one, today." I can keep going back-and-forth.

Jon M. Chu

#100. Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Jon M. Chu