Diane Ackerman Quotes

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

Diane Ackerman

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• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Politics
  • Drawing

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Forces
  • Member
  • Coalition

• How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Power

• Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • God
  • Trying
  • Dream

• You can't win what you don't fight for.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Fight

• Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I am single, I don't drink. It's kind of hard to get a woman buzzed when you don't drink. You'll be like, "Yeah, I'll have a glass of water, you want a shot of Jäger? You want eight of 'em?"

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Water

• On one level, I realize the basic appeal of my character is her body. But the totality of the Conan film is really much more than that. When I read the script, I thought it was just a matter of sword fighting. But when I read the books, I found they were filled with sorcery, and I liked that very much. I've always loved fairy tales, and I've always believed that just around the corner, magic truly does exist, human magic.

  

  Valérie Quennessen
  • Character
  • Realize
  • Level

• I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fade
  • Bolivian

• I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • May
  • Remember
  • Career

• Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Stage
  • Reaction

• Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Phrases

• Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Poet