Diane Ackerman Quotes
Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.
Diane Ackerman
Quotes to Explore
-
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
-
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Earl Warren
-
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
Adam Grant
-
It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.
Ike Barinholtz
-
It's nice not to have to live a double life.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
-
I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
Patrick Wang
-
Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
Ted Olson
-
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.
John Strachan
-
Britney's a really cool girl, We were really close back when we were on the Mickey Mouse Club, and even watching her in interviews I find myself missing her lately. I'm really proud of her, how far she's come and what she's been able to accomplish. And to keep it together: It's so crazy out on the road. I gotta give her credit for not just going berserk and letting everybody get to her. I just passed on my number to her through somebody. It's good to have friends in the business who know what you're going through.
Christina Aguilera
-
It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
-
The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The slippages were actually more dramatic than the costs. As we slipped, the costs were pushed to the right.
B. R. Hayden
-
Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'
Sandra Bullock
-
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.
Sean William Scott
-
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.
Sebastian Coe
-
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
Felix Dennis
-
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
Tammy Bruce
-
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
Emanuel Lasker
-
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
Yotam Ottolenghi
