Diane Ackerman Quotes
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.Diane Ackerman
Quotes to Explore
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro -
It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
Laura Dern -
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
Vera Farmiga -
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
Barton Gellman -
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
Victor Ponta
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
Hannah Gadsby -
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Dan Quayle -
I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
Harold Wilson -
I've always been a Nike person.
Wale -
I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
Nacho Figueras -
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
Zoey Deutch
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Edgar Winter -
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler -
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber -
You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
F. Gary Gray -
I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
Karen Salmansohn -
I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
Dallas Roberts
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
Wassily Kandinsky -
I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.
Mark Webber Pulp -
The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.
Katie Chang -
The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do everything you want, as long as they trust you.
David Oakes -
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
Damien Hirst -
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
Diane Ackerman