Richard Powers Quotes

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

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• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Never

• I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Believe
  • American

• I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Day

• And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Done
  • America
  • Wife

• I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Career
  • Politics

• Military intervention for reasons of ideology or nation building is not an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan tradition. It is not a Republican tradition. It is a Bush II-neocon deformity, an aberration that proved disastrous for the United States and the Middle East.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Military

• Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Blow

• But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Together

• In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Exercise

• Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Army

• There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.

  

  Peaches Geldof
  • Life
  • Hate

• Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

  

  Brigitte Boisselier
  • Time
  • Technology

• It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Learning

• After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Real

• I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Great
  • Architecture
  • Beach

• I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Technology
  • Describe
  • Contemporary