Diane Ackerman Quotes

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Diane Ackerman

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• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Lie

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Kind
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Feet

• The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Me
  • Democracy

• I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Me
  • Film
  • Choose

• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Better

• It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Country
  • Political
  • Responsibility

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Joy

• My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Past

• They sailed away for a year and a dayTo the land where the bong-tree grows.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Tree

• Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

  

  Dennis Eckersley
  • Important

• It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

  

  Jim DeMint

• I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

  

  Ben Kingsley

• Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

  

  E. Michael Burke
  • Good
  • Long
  • Success

• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
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