Diane Ackerman Quotes

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

Diane Ackerman

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• My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Together

• When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Love
  • Career
  • Acting

• I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Book
  • Period
  • Write

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Psychology
  • Observer

• I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Movies

• We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Government
  • Singing
  • Silence

• You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Try
  • Will

• One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Opportunity
  • Connection
  • Economy

• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Great
  • History
  • Today

• I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Career
  • Politics

• Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Blow

• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Universe

• Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Rest

• My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Mom

• Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Wise

• I think when you have strong leadership at the coaching level and you empower the coach and the coaching staff, you have a lot more stability.

  

  Jeffrey Lurie
  • Strong
  • Leadership
  • Coaching

• I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • She
  • motivation

• Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Technology
  • Unpredictable
  • Humbling