Richard Powers Quotes

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

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• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Great
  • Coffee
  • Smoking

• It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Goal
  • Child

• I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Hell

• I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Home
  • Mother
  • City

• If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Knowledge
  • Law
  • Desire

• Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Peace
  • Preparing

• The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Price
  • Charkha

• Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

  

  Don Felder The Eagles
  • Way
  • Ride
  • Heavy-Metal

• But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Care
  • Found
  • Atheism

• Wherever you go, there you are.

  

  Thomas à Kempis
  • You
  • Self
  • To Go

• I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Church
  • Frustration
  • Confusion

• Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Game
  • Quality
  • Independence

• What will happen, will happen.

  

  Brom
  • Happen

• The Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.

  

  Barbara Cameron
  • Light
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • People
  • Important
  • Discouraged

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Culture
  • Reason
  • Result

• One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Fashion

• Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Fashion
  • Brand
  • Only

• One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Between
  • Having
  • Meaningless

• I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Between
  • Fascination
  • Components