47 Quotes by Tim Powers

I am very proud of the swimmers and divers, they all did a great job. We set several records and probably 80 percent of the guys had lifetime best performances. Our hats are off to UNLV, they deserved to win and they did an outstanding job.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.