J. F. Powers Quotes

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

J. F. Powers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1917 - June 12, 1999

Topics

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Whatever has happened in your past, it's - you can never deny it. I mean, you can never wash what's happened before in your life out of you.

Jessie Buckley

LifePastYouNeverMeanWhatever

I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.

Jessica Pare

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American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

Andrew Weil

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It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Matthew Prior

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But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

Stanley Tucci

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It's been a long while, but, thank God, now I've been able to get my mum a house.

Sonny Bill Williams

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I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.

Rosie O'Donnell

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I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

Judith Guest

LiveI AmMeThingsSuccessfulWell

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Common

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I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

Bobby Darin

I AmPeopleDoneNowRealizeThings

I ran a hot-dog-and-soda stand at Little League, and I started a business planning parties in high school.

Bobby Kotick

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Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Anton Corbijn

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