Midwest Quote by Richard Powers Download Open image “The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.” — Richard Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Midwest Tabula rasa
I'm proud to come from the Midwest and that's where I'm comfortable at. — Danny Lloyd Copy Share Image
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people. — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
I havent been much in the Midwest, although we were on Mackinac Island last summer and really had a wonderful time. — Melissa Morgan Copy Share Image
I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves. — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at… — Susan Magsamen Copy Share Image
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me… — Daniel Sunjata Copy Share Image
When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources.… — Bob Latta Copy Share Image
Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent. — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that comes across… — Pokey LaFarge Copy Share Image
The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho. — Harmon Killebrew Copy Share Image
Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
