Diane Ackerman Quotes

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Diane Ackerman

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• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Black
  • Financial
  • Potential

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mistake

• I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Kids
  • Loved
  • Films

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Equality

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Pretty
  • Laugh
  • Will

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Fall
  • Best
  • Difficult

• I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Question
  • Always

• Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Truth
  • Faith

• You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Die
  • Always

• 'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.

  

  Logan Lerman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.

  

  Brock Adams
  • World
  • Information
  • Library of Congress

• You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Control

• We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • World
  • Music
  • Listening