Lipscombe Diane Quotes

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one's burden. As far as Elsa could tell, if love really was the inherited female domain, then women were saddled with the biggest burden of all. It was pressing down upon them, the way the sea pressed down upon the creatures of the deep. ~ Kathy-Diane Leveille

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility. ~ Diane Arbus

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do?
Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be ...
Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence,
wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace. ~ Diane Ackerman

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you. ~ Diane Ravitch

A woman is the full circle. ~ Diane Mariechild

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

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department ~ Diane Ravitch

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't. ~ Amanda Peet

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly. ~ Diane Ackerman

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement. ~ Diane Wilson

The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most. ~ Diane Setterfield

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. ~ Diane Kruger

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience. ~ Peter Berg

Did you know that if Barbie was a real woman with those proportions, she'd have to carry her kidneys in her purse? ~ Lani Diane Rich

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon. ~ Diane Sawyer

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. ~ Diane Lane

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate. ~ Diane Warren

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ~ Diane Wakoski

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Beware of your thoughts for they become words, beware of your words for they become actions, beware of your actions for they become habits, beware of your habits for they become character, beware of your character for it becomes your destiny. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. ~ Diane Ravitch

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. ~ Diane Johnson

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business. ~ Diane Duane

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep. ~ Diane Keaton

The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. ~ Diane Setterfield

Why won't you help me?

You have to able to manage on your own. ~ Diane Samuels

The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects- not the reason, the purpose. ~ Diane Duane

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children. ~ Diane Abbott

I thought you were Mr. By-The-Book.
I am. Some days I use a different book. ~ Diane Henders

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. ~ Diane Ackerman

Diane would occasionally find notes he had written. This had happened before. Sometimes it was actually happenstance, and sometimes the faceless old woman who secretly lives in their home would move his notes to where Diane would see them because the faceless old woman was bored and found the troubles of others interesting. Always Diane said she believed in his privacy and always she meant it, but also it always happened that she had read the entire note before she realized what it was. This was not a pattern that she was aware of, but it was one that Josh was very familiar with. ~ Joseph Fink

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. ~ Diane Frolov

Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Master ~ Clara Diane Thompson

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae. ~ Diane Ackerman

Nita stood there horrified. "You just killed him!"
"No," the Lone One said, "you did. Not a bad start, but then you were intent enough on killing something."
All around Nita, the snarling of the viruses was getting louder and louder. "Anyway, don't be too concerned about Pralaya; I'll find another of his people to replace him if there's need. Now, though, matters stand as I told you they stood. All we need is your conscious answer to the question. Can we do business?"
Nita stood there, frozen.
And another voice spoke out of the darkness.
"Fairest and Fallen," Kit said, "one more time ... greeting and defiance. ~ Diane Duane

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart. ~ Diane Warren

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress ... ? No. It's not something for me. ~ Diane Kruger

More yoga in the world is what we need. ~ Diane Lane

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together, ~ Diane Sawyer

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

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother. ~ Diane Kruger