Diane Ackerman Quotes

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

Diane Ackerman

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• Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Odds

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Difference

• My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • House
  • Mom
  • Never

• Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Say

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Guy

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Country
  • Now

• What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Government
  • Oil

• I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Country
  • Done

• Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Alcohol

• When smut's to be smitten Smoot will smite For G-d, for country, And Fahrenheit.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Country

• We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited - the best and greatest country on earth.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Real
  • Trying

• Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Country

• You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen - while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Power
  • Giving

• The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.

  

  Anand Mahindra

• I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• 'Tell me, then! What is so important?''Your life! I could not bear that you should lose it!''I feel much the same. Say on.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Important

• When I tell my friends, 'I'm in the 'Bourne' movie,' they're like, 'Congratulations! Wait... is Matt Damon coming back?' I go, 'Yeah.' And they're like, 'Yo! Matt Damon! Matty D!' Everyone pretends they know Matt Damon. It's exciting.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Congratulations

• When the gust hath blown his fill,Ending on the rustling leavesWith minute drops from off the eaves.

  

  John Milton

• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Country
  • Brain
  • Conversation