Diane Ackerman Quotes

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

Diane Ackerman

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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

  Ovid
  • Oil
  • Clean
  • Bright

• Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Good
  • Fun

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Impossible
  • Word
  • Fools

• Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

  

  J. Cole
  • Words
  • Cool
  • Sometimes

• I used to cuss in my tweets, and now I don't.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Now
  • Used
  • Cuss

• If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Famous
  • Show
  • Records

• In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • World
  • God
  • Fear

• There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Jokes
  • Acceptable
  • Nails

• And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Done
  • She
  • History

• When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • High
  • Connection

• We'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Done
  • Art
  • Business

• I remember saying to someone when I got one of those ‘don’t do it’ [comments] – I just remember hearing my voice being calm and saying, ‘No, it’s going happen. It’s going to happen. I’m just letting you know.’

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Remember
  • Voice
  • Calm

• An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Revenge

• The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Live
  • Imagination

• Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Reality
  • Ideology
  • Psychoanalysis

• We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Creatures
  • Intimate
  • Fabric