Diane Ackerman Quotes

When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

Diane Ackerman

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• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Country
  • Rights

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Creation
  • Step
  • Destroy

• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Tongue

• I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Never

• I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Art
  • Same

• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Business
  • You
  • Politics

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.

  

  Cam
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Society

• I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Character

• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Why
  • Know
  • Tomorrow

• For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Sense
  • Novel
  • Scenes

• Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Learning

• Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Up
  • Training

• When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Life

• I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Day

• Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Care