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'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • World
  • Consciousness
  • Guess

• 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
  • Striving

• 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

• You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

  

  Jon Lee Anderson
  • Survival
  • Aware
  • Stake

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

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Day
  • Fascination

• The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods - originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Plants
  • Components
  • Healthful

• 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