Diane Ackerman Quotes

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

Diane Ackerman

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• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Day
  • End
  • Win

• Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Learning
  • Tea

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Credit
  • Month
  • Credit Card

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Education
  • Party
  • Health

• I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Good
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement

• I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Light
  • Eye
  • Color

• This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Today

• I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Today

• Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Reality

• I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • People
  • Important
  • Political

• When I went to live in New York, I didn't mean to stay there, but here I am.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Live

• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Good

• You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Help
  • Powerful
  • Gun

• 'The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • God

• Salman will always be that special person in my life because he was able to change my career. I will never ever forget what he has done for me. On the personal front, too, he has advised me as a friend and family, something I couldn't have even asked for.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Life
  • Family
  • Done

• I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur

• I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Believe
  • Brain
  • Consciousness