Diane Ackerman Quotes

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

Diane Ackerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1948

Topics

RainStormSometimesSizeSeeTown

'iCarly' was one of my first major jobs, actually. I went into that audition and completely failed at it. I completely bombed... I forgot my lines. When I forget my lines, I kind of get angry. They had me do it again; I remembered them, and I booked it.

Matthew Moy

AngryMeForgetKindFirstGet

As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had created another character - but I'll throw out Will Graham, the protagonist in 'Red Dragon,' a book I've read several times.

Michael Connelly

CharacterRedBookStrongWishYou

I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!

Tori Spelling

I AmNowRightSpellingOrdainedAm

True stories are way more interesting.

Travis Fimmel

InterestingTrueWayMoreStories

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

Ryan Adams

TimeWaitingSongStartKnowFollow

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Mary Gordon

HappinessDeserveUsNoneDoes

I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter.

Mary H.K. Choi

I AmTwitterObsessedAmHarris

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

Mike Myers

MomOfficeFactorySoldWorkedDad

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

LifeArtDanceThinkMy LifeArtist

Colgate is the epitome of having it both ways. Academically, it ranks in the top twenty schools in the country, but it is also a famous party school.

Jay Chandrasekhar

SchoolFamousPartyCountryTop

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.

Douglas Alexander

FearExperienceGenerationYouJust

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

David Simon

GreatTimeSunCityTeamRight

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