All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind...
DIANE SETTERFIELD But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who do...
DIANE SETTERFIELD I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
DIANE SETTERFIELD No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.
DIANE SETTERFIELD The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind th...
DIANE SETTERFIELD When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the ye...
DIANE SETTERFIELD There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewh...
DIANE SETTERFIELD One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffen...
DIANE SETTERFIELD All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of...
DIANE SETTERFIELD A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
DIANE SETTERFIELD I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
DIANE SETTERFIELD We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from...
DIANE SETTERFIELD When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth t...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
DIANE SETTERFIELD You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the...
DIANE SETTERFIELD People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Of course I loved books more than people.
DIANE SETTERFIELD My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is th...
DIANE SETTERFIELD I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. Firs...
DIANE SETTERFIELD For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.
DIANE SETTERFIELD But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale,...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD What better place to kill time than a library?
DIANE SETTERFIELD She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
DIANE SETTERFIELD I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
DIANE SETTERFIELD Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
DIANE SETTERFIELD Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, bu...
DIANE SETTERFIELD One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
DIANE SETTERFIELD The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Reading can be dangerous.
DIANE SETTERFIELD It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, q...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
DIANE SAWYER Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
DIANE ARBUS I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
DIANE ACKERMAN Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a susta...
DIANE ARBUS A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out th...
DIANE WARREN I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
DIANE KRUGER Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains u...
DIANE ACKERMAN I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so...
DIANE WARREN I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it fe...
DIANE WARREN I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
DIANE KRUGER Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they te...
DIANE BLACK I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express em...
DIANE KRUGER In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community ...
DIANE BLACK I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so ma...
DIANE ACKERMAN When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark c...
DIANE ABBOTT PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that cele...
DIANE WAKOSKI Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergro...
DIANE ACKERMAN The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.
DIANE LANE Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believ...
DIANE DUANE With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No...
DIANE WOLKSTEIN Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or to...
DIANE ACKERMAN There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of...
DIANE ACKERMAN Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
DIANE ARBUS A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and ha...
DIANE ARBUS I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about...
DIANE ARBUS It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lor...
DIANE ARBUS It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet...
DIANE ACKERMAN There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands th...
DIANE ARBUS After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
DIANE ACKERMAN A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together...
DIANE ACKERMAN I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to ha...
DIANE ACKERMAN Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
DIANE ACKERMAN Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and t...
DIANE ARBUS What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and ...
DIANE SAWYER The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to h...
DIANE ACKERMAN The devil is and always has been a gentleman.
DIANE LAVEY People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
DIANE SAWYER Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, beca...
DIANE ACKERMAN Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejo...
DIANE ACKERMAN It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting it...
DIANE ACKERMAN The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanit...
DIANE ACKERMAN Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
DIANE ACKERMAN In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to ...
DIANE GARNICK Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be i...
DIANE LADD I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all...
DIANE PAULUS We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different pl...
DIANE ACKERMAN Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experien...
DIANE KEATON I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going ...
DIANE KRUGER I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like be...
DIANE KRUGER Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitut...
DIANE WOOD Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
DIANE ACKERMAN I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious bec...
DIANE KRUGER All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...
DIANE ACKERMAN We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutri...
DIANE ACKERMAN I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...
DIANE ARBUS All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting...
DIANE LANE As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, wor...
DIANE ACKERMAN I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a tim...
DIANE KRUGER Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to acce...
DIANE SAWYER I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I marr...
DIANE HENDRICKS It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scotti...
DIANE KRUGER Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Hi...
DIANE ACKERMAN Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency...
DIANE ACKERMAN I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai...
DIANE KRUGER I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca...
DIANE KRUGER It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i...
DIANE KRUGER With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This wa...
DIANE GUERRERO Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get t...
DIANE DUANE My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of...
DIANE ABBOTT In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society...
DIANE PAULUS I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of s...
DIANE ARBUS With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware ...
DIANE KRUGER I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
DIANE LANE I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t...
DIANE WAKOSKI Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with ...
DIANE ARBUS Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
DIANE ARBUS Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empath...
DIANE ACKERMAN I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sport...
DIANE LANE You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a...
DIANE ENGLISH Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increas...
DIANE GARNICK What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion ...
DIANE ACKERMAN I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional s...
DIANE KRUGER Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see ...
DIANE ACKERMAN I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
DIANE KRUGER My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was ...
DIANE KEATON Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big...
DIANE KRUGER It's always refreshing to step into another time.
DIANE LANE ...she knew, with all her heart that running away from the country’s top relationship coach was as...
DIANE HALL Whose are all these ghosts?” she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
“Oh,” s...
DIANE HALL The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the m...
DIANE ARBUS The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the worl...
DIANE WATSON There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to thin...
DIANE WOOD I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although...
DIANE WAKOSKI I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.
DIANE KRUGER Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing...
DIANE ABBOTT I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of ...
DIANE KRUGER I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship...
DIANE LANE The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you...
DIANE ACKERMAN Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about techn...
DIANE SAWYER Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
DIANE DUANE At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...
DIANE ACKERMAN Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that ...
DIANE SAWYER I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my p...
DIANE KEATON I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses u...
DIANE ACKERMAN I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony mission...
DIANE LADD We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, espe...
DIANE WATSON We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... no...
DIANE PAULUS Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school....
DIANE KRUGER The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs ...
DIANE WATSON My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.
DIANE LADD It is not 'seeing' the light that impacts one's life; it is never 'ceasing' to see the light that im...
DIANE LAHAIE Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices.
DIANE ARCHER The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. Peop...
DIANE ARCHER The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... ...
DIANE ARCHER The first thing people need to know is that they do not have to make any changes if they are happy w...
DIANE ARCHER We hear every kind of story.
DIANE ARCHER [Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people wh...
DIANE ARCHER Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day ...
DIANE ARCHER Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's...
DIANE ARCHER We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D.
DIANE ARCHER [Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't gettin...
DIANE ARCHER Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
DIANE ARBUS You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
DIANE ARBUS The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
DIANE ARBUS The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
DIANE ARBUS These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
DIANE ARBUS It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lor...
DIANE ARBUS What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I ...
DIANE ARBUS When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you...
DIANE ARBUS We encourage students to talk to advisers to help them choose a program that is right for them. We h...
DIANE ADAMS We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important.
DIANE ADAMS I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and t...
DIANE ADAMS I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists.
DIANE ADAMS They both take a playful look at the world.
DIANE ADAMS The children are enrolled in school and they are now trying to get back to some type of normalcy,
DIANE ADAMS It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried ...
DIANE ADAMS It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one
thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a...
DIANE ADAMS It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ...
DIANE ADAMS He's smart. But it's like a learning disability. If you're talking to him straight on, you either ha...
DIANE ADAMS Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August i...
DIANE ACKERMAN Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN Success produces success, just as money produces money
DIANE ACKERMAN Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight
DIANE ACKERMAN Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,
DIANE ACKERMAN These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and c...
DIANE ABLONCZY Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want.
DIANE ABLONCZY Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. Y...
DIANE ABLONCZY I expect him to be straightforward. We won't get a dizzying round of rhetoric. He will say what he m...
DIANE ABLONCZY My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
DIANE ABBOTT You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
DIANE ABBOTT This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Port...
DIANE ABBOTT She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself ver...
DIANE ABBOTT In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated next to mo...
DIANE ABBOTT because that was the only way they felt they could survive.
DIANE ABBOTT Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s...
DIANE ABBOTT Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched ...
DIANE ABBOTT My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the...
DIANE ABBOTT