"Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by……" — Diane Ackerman
"Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods."
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128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman has 128 quotes on this site.
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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More Anthem Quotes
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Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.
— Luke Bryan
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
— Kelly Clarkson
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I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day…
— Jim Leyland
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I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4…
— Unknown Author
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We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
— Barry Trotz
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The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
— Harry Sinden
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I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of…
— Ronald Reagan
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
— Aldo Leopold
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The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."
— Peter Kreeft
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -…
— Howard Zinn
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in…
— Howard Zinn
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If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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