Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Tim Powers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Tim Powers.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Timothy Thomas Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. His 1987 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film.

American - Author | Born: February 29, 1952

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

Tim Powers

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

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

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

Tim Powers

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

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

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

Tim Powers

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

Tim Powers