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

• 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 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

• 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

• We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

  

  Debbi Peterson
  • Band
  • Baby

• We're entertainers, not just singers!

  

  David Ruffin The Temptations

• When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

  

  Jeremy Gilley
  • Humanity

• If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Up
  • Why
  • Freedom

• The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

  

  John Pistole
  • Trying
  • Technology
  • Air

• Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

  

  G. Harry Stine
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Years

• Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

  

  Catharine Arnold
  • Death
  • Public
  • Shakespeare

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

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Technology
  • Unpredictable
  • Humbling