Diane Ackerman Quotes

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

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• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Light

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • May
  • High
  • Me

• America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Power
  • America
  • Society

• Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Independent
  • Looking
  • Well

• There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Winning
  • Intellectual

• Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Me
  • Doing
  • Solo

• Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Water
  • Beach
  • Illness

• I respect women to the utmost.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Utmost

• I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Anger

• Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Ironic

• New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?

  

  Christian Scott
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Stuff
  • Room
  • Enters

• With each film, I get more and more involved and it's more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people's preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something, have always had an opinion, although they've never really rebelled.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • People
  • Time
  • Opinion

• We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • People
  • Trying
  • Culture

• Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Idea

• I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

  

  Diane Ackerman
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