Richard Powers quote

Previous quote
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
Richard Powers
Richard Powers
Richard Powers
Born: Jun 18, 1957

Topics

Midwest

Links

Cite this page: Citation

Related Authors

Elie Wiesel, Ernest Hemingway, H. P. Lovecraft, James Baldwin, John Updike, Leo Rosten, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Bach
The Overstory: A Novel
The Overstory: A Novel
on Amazon
Buy now

Quotes To Explore

New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.' Chris Farley
Home Thought First Month About Scary Knees New Town Come Like Coming Go Go Home York New York Wanna After Midwest Gonna Cocky Bring
Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged. John Gregory Dunne
You Dangerous Gulf Hurricanes New Along Most Get York Essentially New York Midwest Mugged Floods Lives
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early! Kate Spade
Girl Babysitter Clerk Sales Midwest Them Popcorn Start Early Starting
Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to. Luke Perry
Buy You People Opportunity Car Drive Relate More Because Occur Up Expensive Midwest Even Growing Growing Up
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. Tom Brokaw
Old College Spirit Part Adventurous Midwest Across
Wrestling in the Midwest is always such a blast, and a favorite place of mine. Adam Cole
Mine Favorite Wrestling Blast Always Place Midwest
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest. Adam Rapp
Youth School College Military Thirty Spent High Born Minutes High School About Small Scholarship Wisconsin Like Most Academy Iowa South Chicago Which Midwest Then Illinois Basketball
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. Ajay Naidu
Loneliness Sky Sense Cold Extraordinary Similarities Vast Open Between America Midwest Europe
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. Al Franken
Politics Home Together Looking Progressive Back Focused Run Minnesota Network Knitting Involved Am Doing Senate Upper Getting Moving Midwest Next Meantime Next Thing Thing
I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong. Alan Arkin
Myself Thought Out Wrong New Make York New York Wanted Burying Midwest

More quotes?

Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025