Diane Ackerman Quotes

Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

Diane Ackerman

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• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Personality
  • Human
  • Him

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • God
  • Family

• She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

  

  Harper Lee
  • She
  • Girl
  • Kitchen

• If only I had the magic self of babyhood when I remembered what it was like before I was born, I wouldnt worry about death now knowing both to be the same empty dream.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Death
  • Dream
  • Worry

• Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• The West as a whole in the early 1990s became obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forgot that the only real peace dividend is peace.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Real
  • Peace

• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Slavery
  • Racism

• My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.

  

  David Cone
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Fall

• Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.

  

  Alana Blanchard
  • Different
  • Home
  • Pretty

• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  

  Constance Baker Motley

• I think that people have realized it's very unwise to bet against Donald Trump.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • People
  • Trump

• If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • Book
  • Option

• In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Fear
  • Friendship
  • Partner

• Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

  

  Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • Life
  • Purpose

• We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.

  

  Deborah K. Ross
  • Time
  • Effort

• Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Process
  • Deadline
  • Best Thing

• When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.

  

  Jon Ronson
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in a lot of people, or bring it out worse. It makes people make crazy decisions.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • People
  • Crazy

• I do believe Zoe Baird was treated unfairly.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Believe
  • Treated
  • Zoe Baird

• The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Hatred
  • Victim

• Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

  

  Diane Ackerman