Quote by Richard Powers Download Open image ““Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone.”” — Richard Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“p.45: Es preferible acertar aproximadamente a equivocarse precisamente.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Lay aside caution, it cannot help thee against destiny; to worry with precaution is to toil and moil; go, trust in providence, trust in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.” — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.” — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
