Diane Ackerman Quotes

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  

  Quintilian
  • Food
  • Change
  • Like

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Eye

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Child

• I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Me

• Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Night
  • Thanks

• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Fight
  • Rights

• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • True
  • End
  • Honor

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Book
  • Marriage
  • Poetry

• In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Community
  • Nation

• No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • She
  • History

• Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
  • World
  • Rock

• I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dark
  • Magic

• We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • World
  • Attention
  • Magic