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

• On visiting India this time, because of my previous visit, I did have a certain amount of knowledge about the country, but I also felt that there was much greater interest in Japan and deeper interaction between the two countries now than the last time I was there.

  

  Akihito
  • Time
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• 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

• Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Country
  • Know
  • Calendar

• I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • People
  • Famous

• I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Age

• It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld

• A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosopher
  • Blames
  • Vulgar Man

• 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