Diane Ackerman Quotes
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
Quotes to Explore
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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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.'
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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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.
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I used to cuss in my tweets, and now I don't.
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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.
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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.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.’
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
