Diane Ackerman Quotes

Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

Diane Ackerman

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• I like sitting close to windows.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Sitting
  • Windows

• If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Beat

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • She
  • Hand

• My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Family
  • Support
  • Pain

• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Darkness
  • Go
  • Turn

• I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Political
  • Myself

• Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • King
  • Civil Rights

• The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • World
  • Mind
  • Interior

• From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Man
  • Day
  • Make A Difference

• Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • God
  • War

• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • People
  • Media
  • Interviews

• I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mean
  • Hurts
  • Grandparent

• There's this book," Jared said. "And in this book a guy said that he would rather touch someones hand if she was dead than another girl who was alive. It's creepy. I know that." He was staring off into space, as if at some private nightmare. "Nothing matters in comparison. Nobody is real but her. So it feels sometimes as if nothing else matters at all, including other people. She wouldn't like that. Other people SHOULD matter." *** So he loved Kami.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • People
  • Real
  • Book

• As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Real

• I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

  

  Marianne Faithfull

• You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Feeling
  • Sorry

• Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Relationship
  • Mean
  • Mistake