Diane Kamon Quotes

You cannot replace kindness by cleverness. ~ Kamon

It is still news to her that passion
could steer her wrong
though she went down, a thousand times
strung out
across railroad tracks, off bridges
under cars, or stiff
glass bottle still in hand, hair soft
on greasy pillows, still it is
news she cannot follow love (his
burning footsteps in blue crystal
snow) & still
come out all right. ~ Diane Di Prima

He'd know about the role of mirror neurons in the brain, special cells in the premotor cortex that fire right before a person reaches for a rock, steps forward, turns away, begins to smile.Amazingly, the same neurons fire whether we do something or watch someone else do the same thing, and both summon similar feelings. Learning form our own mishaps isn't as safe as learning from someone else's, which helps us decipher the world of intentions, making our social whirl possible. The brain evolved clever ways to spy or eavesdrop on risk, to fathom another's joy or pain quickly, as detailed sensations, without resorting to words. We feel what we see, we experience others as self. ~ Diane Ackerman

He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did. ~ Diane Setterfield

Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you; what they say and what they don't say. ~ Diane Helbig

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith. ~ Diane Samuels

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? ~ Diane Setterfield

I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them. ~ Diane Farr

Rebuilt in Victorian times, it retained the modesty of its medieval origins. Small and neat, its spire indicated the direction of heaven without trying to pierce a hole in it. ~ Diane Setterfield

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring. ~ Diane Keaton

Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter ~ Diane Setterfield

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris. ~ Diane Kruger

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away ... His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Success produces success, just as money produces money. ~ Diane Ackerman

The wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor. ~ Diane Setterfield

Trouble. I felt my muscles tense with anticipation and anxiety. Sought understanding. ~ Diane Capri

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature. ~ Diane Ackerman

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight ... ~ Diane Duane

While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators. ~ Diane Nelson

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. ~ Diane Setterfield

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me. ~ Diane Setterfield

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing. ~ Diane Mott Davidson

That's impossible," I replied. Diane Monroe and Ryan Bauer had been together for four years. They were supposed to get married, have 2.4 kids, and have a 50 percent chance of living happily ever
after. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg

None of us knows what we want to do when we're his age. When we're your age, when you're my age," said Diane, "any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we're right, but only ever in retrospect." Her ~ Joseph Fink

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can. ~ Diane Sawyer

You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink! ~ Diane Duane

When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this? ~ Diane Dreher

She was many things, but a liar was not one of them. ~ Diane Chamberlain

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away. ~ Diane Keaton

I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me. ~ Diane Warren

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple. ~ Diane Warren

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career. ~ Diane Lane

Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290] ~ Diane Ackerman

One thing that struck me early is that you don't put into a photograph what's going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in. ~ Diane Arbus

Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing. ~ Diane Dreher

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations. ~ Diane Ackerman

Facing her fear turned out to be the only hard part. ~ Diane Chamberlain

Magic and its remedies deal with borders, markers, distinctions, insides and outsides, the limits of bodies, and also that which breaches these boundaries; bodily fluids, exchanges of objects through bodies and across thresholds, words that pass through the guard of the ear and enter the mind of the hearer. Women's bodies by virtue of their reproductive capacities, are seen as more open, more grotesque, less autonomous ~ Diane Purkiss

Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty of dawn on the open seas. Part of my job, as I see it, is to allow that to happen. Sleepers like me need at some point to rise and take their turn on morning watch for the sake of the planet, but also for their own sake, for the enrichment of their lives. From the deserts of Namibia to the razor-backed Himalayas, there are wonderful creatures that have roamed the Earth much longer than we, creatures that not only are worthy of our respect but could teach us about ourselves. ~ Diane Ackerman

The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways. ~ Diane Setterfield

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of Evolution. ~ Diane Ackerman

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer ~ Diane Sawyer

How I preened at that, shamefully so in memory for, while I would have been put off by you calling me "hot" or a "babe" at my age, still having "it" - the illusive "it" factor that transcended looks or age was plausible.

From Prey. Middle-Aged Boys&Girls ~ Diane Bracuk

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. ~ Diane Arbus

Deep play arises in such moments of intense enjoyment, focus, control, creativity, timelessness, confidence, volition, lack of self-awareness (hence transcendence) while doing things intrinsically worthwhile, rewarding for their own sake…It feels cleansing because when acting and thinking becomes one, there is no room left for other thoughts. ~ Diane Ackerman

[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women photographers make a strong case for seeing and an even stronger case for recording what you see. ~ Diane Keaton