Quote by Richard Powers Download Open image ““What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?”” — Richard Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Jump "Don't you get it?" he said. "The ones who are afraid of heights don't trust themselves enough to jump.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“Humanity was a precipice and she was standing on the edge of it, staring into the wild and yawning void that encompassed all things… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“But you should never jump unless you know you can fly, or at least float. Nobody wants to fall. That’s how you end up… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“No matter how terrified you may be, own your fear and take that leap anyway because whether you land on your feet or on… — Laurie Laliberte Copy Share Image
“...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.” — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Now I understood a little what it meant to be frightened. It was like desperately gasping for air in a place without oxygen.” — Sohn Won-Pyung Copy Share Image
“When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“What did it mean, falling at his feet like that? Was it symbolic or what?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It was not like everyone had said. Not like being needed, or needing; not desperate; it did not whisper that I'd come to harm. I didn't lose my head. No, I was not going to leap from a great height and flap my wings. It was in fact the opposite of flying: it contained the wish to be toppled, to… — Deborah Garrison Copy Share
“She understood it wasn’t an actual fear of flying so much as a fear of being without control, which was often the crux of… — Alex Kava Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with… — Patrick Rothfuss 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 of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs… — Richard Powers Copy Share
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
