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Give a man enough rope and he...

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

The senses don't just make se...

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Who would deduce the dragonfl...

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

One of the keystones of roman...

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

A kiss is like singing into s...

A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

We evolved as creatures knitt...

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

When you consider something l...

When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Look at your feet. You are st...

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

When I go biking, I am mental...

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

One can live at a low flame. ...

One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Wonder is the heaviest elemen...

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Look in the mirror. The face ...

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

History is an agreed-upon fic...

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Our sense of safety depends o...

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Who you are isn't tied solely...

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Who would drink from a cup wh...

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Couples are jigsaw puzzles th...

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

A life like an intricately wo...

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

We have vexed and bothered ev...

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

I try to give myself passiona...

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

Diane Ackerman 235 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....