Famous Quotes / Diane Ackerman
13 Quotations by Diane Ackerman
- 1. A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together ...
- 2. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
- 3. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergro ...
- 4. I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
- 5. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want t ...
- 6. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet ...
- 7. Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
- 8. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con ...
- 9. Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
- 10. Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August i ...
- 11. There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
- 12. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar -- net ...
- 13. We live on the leash of our senses.