Diane Ackerman Quotes

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Diane Ackerman

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• The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Important
  • She
  • Book

• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Grow

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Away
  • Clock

• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Way

• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • She
  • Gifts
  • Four

• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Beautiful
  • Moon
  • Tree

• Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Function
  • Recognition

• You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Hope
  • Driving
  • I Hope

• All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • Truth
  • Extraordinary
  • Fantasies

• I wasn't raised going to synagogue. My mother wasn't brought up with that, so I wasn't brought up with it.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Synagogue

• I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Care
  • Ego

• People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Material
  • Supply

• There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

  

  Plutarch
  • Troubled
  • Poured
  • Inflamed

• Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Chance
  • Mask
  • Device

• What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Do
  • Different Things

• I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Technology
  • Environment
  • Destroy

• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fools
  • United
  • Good Fortune

• Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Adventure

• Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Sleep
  • Grave
  • Repose

• War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • War
  • Dreamers
  • Weaponless

• There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Fools