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
  • Tree
  • Moon

• Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Function
  • Recognition

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

  

  Winnie Holzman
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Writer

• This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

  

  George Whitefield
  • Present
  • Speak
  • Devil

• How easy love makes fools of us.

  

  Moliere
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Men who not religious or artists are fools.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Men
  • Artists
  • Fools

• There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Destroy
  • Fools
  • Terrorists

• I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.

  

  Ainsley Harriott
  • Mother
  • Interest
  • Teenager

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

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Fools