Diane Ackerman Quotes

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

Diane Ackerman

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• Affair
• Hills
• Exploration

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Career
  • Respect

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Customer

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Society

• If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Bad

• For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Children
  • Exercise

• My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Friends

• The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

  

  David Brock
  • Book

• I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Relationship

• When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Music
  • Live

• Eat my shorts!

  

  Matt Groening

• The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

  

  Jay Rockefeller
  • Priority

• The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.

  

  Kevin Richardson

• I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • Bits
  • Misfits

• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Head
  • Arm
  • Electronic

• I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • People

• Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Curiosity

• It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Curiosity
  • Greed
  • Common Sense

• The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Curiosity
  • Affair
  • Hills