Dick Powell quotes

Dick Powell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. Thats more detrimental.”
-- Dick Powell

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“The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.”
-- Dick Powell

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“My idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond.”
-- Dick Powell

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“For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.”
“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”
“Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu”
“A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?”
“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”
“Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.28, Da Capo Press
“I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.”
“I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.85, Baker Books
“So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.”

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