Diane Ackerman Quotes
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
Diane Ackerman
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
Manny Montana
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
Wayne Rogers
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
Landon Donovan
After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.
Venus Williams
I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.
Padmasree Warrior
Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
Oscar Wilde
We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.
Jack McDevitt
I am not gonna die because some network executive thought I was fat! It's so wrong! It's so wrong that women are asked to live up to this skinny ideal that is totally unattainable. For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!
Margaret Cho
You can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantYou can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantWalk right in, it's around the backJust a half a mile from the railroad trackYou can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Arlo Guthrie
The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.
Kurt Sutter
I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
Joe Jamail
Do not be deceived by impostors.
Clayton Christensen
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
Alex Berenson
I have to constantly remind myself that no one is perfect and that this is my journey, and I have to be kind to myself.
Ashley Nell Tipton
They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
Ariel Gore
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.
Jack Dangermond
I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.
Clive James
The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.
Don McLean
Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
Sam Altman
I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.
Ernest Cline
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
Diane Ackerman
