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

• 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

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

  

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People

• I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.

  

  Billy Burke
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.

  

  James Adomian
  • Country
  • Control

• What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Great
  • America
  • Together

• I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Reality
  • Worry
  • Cold

• A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.

  

  Alonzo Mourning

• The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Good

• Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Talent
  • Youth
  • Hunger

• The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • War
  • Relationship
  • Spiritual

• I can do a reddish-brown or brown lip, but not a bright red. I just don't look good in it. Over the years you learn certain things that don't look good on you, and that's one of them for me.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Years
  • Lip

• 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