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 never stopped drinking, I just don't drink that much anymore. You know, sometimes on the weekends, it's not like a daily thing.

  

  Charles Henry Mosley III Bad Brains
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Drinking

• How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

  

  Jo Brand
  • Relationship

• The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.

  

  B. H. Roberts
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Quality

• Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Death
  • Living
  • Hard Time

• 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