Diane Ackerman Quotes

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Up
  • Moving
  • More

• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Myself

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Moving
  • New
  • Direction

• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Moving Forward

• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Love
  • Support

• The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Stop
  • Alone

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Health
  • Moving

• Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Moving
  • Start
  • Gym

• You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Free
  • Moving
  • Woman

• The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Moving
  • Year
  • Paris

• Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • May
  • Job

• The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Moving
  • Mirror
  • Moving Forward

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Future

• I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • American
  • Proud

• Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Way
  • Creativity
  • Lines

• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

  

  Miriam Schapiro
  • Moving
  • Sometimes
  • Painting

• If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Life
  • Lead

• A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Moving
  • Lines
  • Crystals