Diane Ackerman Quotes
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.
Diane Ackerman
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
Irvine Welsh
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
P. J. O'Rourke
Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
T. S. Eliot
The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8
Ze Frank
Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
Warren Farrell
