Diane Ackerman Quotes
Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
Diane Ackerman
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When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
Lorne Michaels
Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.
Edward Snowden
Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.
Alfred Noyes
There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
Matthew Desmond
You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
Mick Jones
The Clash
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
Bernardo Bertolucci
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
Joshua Roman
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
Richard Scott Bakker
I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
Anne Hathaway
Love side, hate side, never in between.
Jhene Aiko
Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
Diane Ackerman