Diane Ackerman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
-
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
-
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
-
To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
-
Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
-
For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
-
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
-
As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
-
When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
-
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
-
I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
-
I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
-
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
-
It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
-
Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
-
When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
-
What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
-
Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
-
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
-
I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?
-
To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing
-
It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?
-
I am going to keep on singing. I have no intention of retiring. Actually, I always wonder whether people know my songs in the different countries I visit. I feel nervous over whether they will sing along with me or not.
-
A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.
