Diane Ackerman Quotes

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• I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Working
  • Director

• Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Been
  • Average
  • Months

• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Dream
  • Photography
  • Luck

• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Years
  • Vanity

• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Law

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Rich

• I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!

  

  Becki Newton
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Important
  • Live
  • Political

• You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Plan

• Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

  

  Walter Crane
  • Designer
  • Staff
  • Lean

• It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Forces

• Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Present

• I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Different
  • Done
  • Career

• Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Sky
  • Drink
  • Shoulder

• Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Imagination

• The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

  

  Nicholas Ray
  • Imagination
  • Source
  • Protection

• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  

  Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Long
  • Party
  • Silence

• Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

  

  Diane Ackerman
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