Diane Ackerman Quotes

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Diane Ackerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We have a generation of women who think that they can just have IVF, and everything will be fine. The odds are against you once you start having IVF, and the odds are against you over the age of 35. And to pretend that it's easy to have a baby in your 40s or 50s is - it's just selling women a false dream.

Joanna Coles

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An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Maurice Chevalier

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My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn't carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

Slash

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Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Tom Sizemore

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My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

Roger Ailes

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I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.

Rose Leslie

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Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

Robert Winston

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I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes.

Mira Sorvino

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Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Jasper Carrott

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Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

Dionne Warwick

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Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Dorothy Hamill

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