Quotes by : Diane Ackerman

Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher....

Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful language....

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total....

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise....

The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, right....

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.

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

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors....

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this....

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy....