Diane Ackerman Quotes

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

Diane Ackerman

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• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Health

• We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Parents

• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

  

  Austin O'Malley
  • Friendship

• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Secret

• Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Jesus
  • Love Is
  • Recognized

• I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

  

  William Shatner
  • Creative

• I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

  

  William Congreve
  • Heaven
  • Enough
  • Helping

• So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Enlightenment
  • Affected
  • Suspicious

• I really love dogs. When I see a dog, I go crazy, it's like, “Oh my God, come here, come here!”

  

  Bill Kaulitz
  • God
  • Love
  • Crazy

• But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Heaven
  • Sky
  • Porch

• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

  

  Whitney M. Young
  • Opportunity
  • Better
  • Prepared

• I don't like going to dinner by myself; I'll call for delivery before I do that. It's awkward if you're at a table all alone. I'm sure nobody even notices, but there's something about it.

  

  Max Thieriot
  • Alone

• There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Good
  • Country
  • Rest

• Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Wife
  • Picture
  • Valentine's Day

• Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • World
  • Different
  • Reality

• The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

  

  Georges Perec
  • Question
  • Idea
  • I Do

• I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • Passionate
  • Naive
  • I Do

• For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • I Do