Diane Ackerman Quotes

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Diane Ackerman

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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• The movie business is a big gamble.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Big

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Tongue

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Freedom
  • Will
  • Survive

• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Hard

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Man
  • Dangerous
  • Creature

• When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Night
  • Dark

• I wasn't a great background singer.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Great
  • Singer
  • Background

• You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• 'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Society
  • Model

• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Money is the best rule of commerce.

  

  William Petty
  • Finance
  • Commerce

• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • School
  • Wonder

• I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Up
  • Political

• Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • People
  • Dream
  • Calm

• I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Movies
  • Hollywood
  • Agent

• Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Wonder
  • Knees
  • Cosmic