Tim Powers famous quotes

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.
-- Tim Powers

#Cat #Boys #Fire

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.
-- Tim Powers

#World #Beast #Drink

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.
-- Tim Powers

#Weather #Sea #Vessel

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.
-- Tim Powers

#Mail #Fairness

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.
-- Tim Powers

#Party #Thinking #People

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.
-- Tim Powers

#Wages #Lad

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.
-- Tim Powers

#Fun #Fire

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
-- Tim Powers

#Errors #Answers #Problem

Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her.... -Nana Komatsu

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.

Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

There's a fire starting in my heart