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Top 25 Tim Powers Quotes (2025 Update)

Tim Powers Quote: “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” – William Faulkner.”

1. “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” – William Faulkner.”

Tim Powers Quote: “The other suicide had been the actress Clara Blandick, who, one day in 1962, had got her hair fixed up and had carefully done her makeup and put on a formal gown and then pulled a plastic bag over her head and smothered herself. She was chiefly remembered for having played Auntie Em in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.”

2. “The other suicide had been the actress Clara Blandick, who, one day in 1962, had got her hair fixed up and had carefully done her makeup and put on a formal gown and then pulled a plastic bag over her head and smothered herself. She was chiefly remembered for having played Auntie Em in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.”

Tim Powers Quote: “Time,” he said solemnly, “is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant.”

3. “Time,” he said solemnly, “is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant.”

Tim Powers Quote: “It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”

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

Tim Powers Quote: “The Flamingo, as Siegel named his hotel, was a castle in the wasteland with a lot of tamed water nearby. And.”

5. “The Flamingo, as Siegel named his hotel, was a castle in the wasteland with a lot of tamed water nearby. And.”

Tim Powers Quote: “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.”

6. “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 Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”

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

Tim Powers Quote: “Under,” he said in a shaky voice, “normal circumstances, I’d certainly be in love with you.” “Nobody falls in love under normal circumstances,” she said softly, rubbing his finger with her warm thumb. He restrained an impulse to look to see if there was still ink on it. “Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.”

9. “Under,” he said in a shaky voice, “normal circumstances, I’d certainly be in love with you.” “Nobody falls in love under normal circumstances,” she said softly, rubbing his finger with her warm thumb. He restrained an impulse to look to see if there was still ink on it. “Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.”

Tim Powers Quote: “A kid just couldn’t see the difference. It was like being color-blind or something, or preferring Frazetta to all those blobby old paintings of haystacks and French people in rowboats.”

10. “A kid just couldn’t see the difference. It was like being color-blind or something, or preferring Frazetta to all those blobby old paintings of haystacks and French people in rowboats.”

Tim Powers Quote: “I think this is the first of her last-person novels.” Scott.”

11. “I think this is the first of her last-person novels.” Scott.”

Tim Powers Quote: “We need a pretty substantial favor.” She pointed at Crawford and herself. “He and I want to get married. Uh, Father Cyprian, this is John Crawford, and this is our daughter, Johanna.” The priest nodded sympathetically. “One does tend to keep putting these things off, doesn’t one?”

12. “We need a pretty substantial favor.” She pointed at Crawford and herself. “He and I want to get married. Uh, Father Cyprian, this is John Crawford, and this is our daughter, Johanna.” The priest nodded sympathetically. “One does tend to keep putting these things off, doesn’t one?”

Tim Powers Quote: “The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.”

13. “The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.”

Tim Powers Quote: “Newton must have been right when he’d said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him.”

14. “Newton must have been right when he’d said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him.”

Tim Powers Quote: “Somebody’s killing the moon, the goddess; some woman has apparently taken on the – what would the word be – goddess-hood and somebody’s killing her. I think it’s too late for her, and I don’t know the circumstances, but she’s got a child, a little girl. An infant, in fact, to judge by how close Venus was to the moon when we saw it.” Here.”

15. “Somebody’s killing the moon, the goddess; some woman has apparently taken on the – what would the word be – goddess-hood and somebody’s killing her. I think it’s too late for her, and I don’t know the circumstances, but she’s got a child, a little girl. An infant, in fact, to judge by how close Venus was to the moon when we saw it.” Here.”

Tim Powers Quote: “Yeah, there’s some unlikely beasts in the world, and it’s best to stay near the ones that you’ve bought drinks for.”

16. “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 Quote: “It’s a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we’re the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it’s a district of England or France or Spain.”

17. “It’s a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we’re the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it’s a district of England or France or Spain.”

Tim Powers Quote: “Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. ‘I am not a dog!’ he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.”

18. “Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. ‘I am not a dog!’ he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.”

Tim Powers Quote: “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.”

19. “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 Quote: “Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”

20. “Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”

Tim Powers Quote: “Byron; and, realistically, quite a number of those infants will die without my care, and Josephine is hardly a creature with potential, hardly anybody’s idea of a tabula rasa, a blank slate – hell, she’s a slate that’s had bad math scrawled on it and then been waxed so that nothing can ever be written on it again. I’ve treated sheep that had more of a right to live.”

21. “Byron; and, realistically, quite a number of those infants will die without my care, and Josephine is hardly a creature with potential, hardly anybody’s idea of a tabula rasa, a blank slate – hell, she’s a slate that’s had bad math scrawled on it and then been waxed so that nothing can ever be written on it again. I’ve treated sheep that had more of a right to live.”

Tim Powers Quote: “The long gray two-story box was the newest structure on the property, having been built in the 1970s. The buildings up the hill had accumulated one by one since the 1920s, most of them incorporating bits salvaged from various torn-down hotels and movie sets. Their aunt Amity, affluent from the sales of her series of popular novels, had added to the architectural clutter after.”

22. “The long gray two-story box was the newest structure on the property, having been built in the 1970s. The buildings up the hill had accumulated one by one since the 1920s, most of them incorporating bits salvaged from various torn-down hotels and movie sets. Their aunt Amity, affluent from the sales of her series of popular novels, had added to the architectural clutter after.”

Tim Powers Quote: “It was beer, not fire, that Prometeus stole from the gods and brought to man.”

23. “It was beer, not fire, that Prometeus stole from the gods and brought to man.”

Tim Powers Quote: “When the Arabs untied him and carried him aboard the dahabeeyeh, a low, single-masted boat with a little cabin in the back, he was half delirious and muttering, ‘Beer... beer... ’ Fortunately they seemed to recognise the word, and brought him a jug of what was, blessedly and unmistakably, beer.”

24. “When the Arabs untied him and carried him aboard the dahabeeyeh, a low, single-masted boat with a little cabin in the back, he was half delirious and muttering, ‘Beer... beer... ’ Fortunately they seemed to recognise the word, and brought him a jug of what was, blessedly and unmistakably, beer.”

Tim Powers Quote: “Stop to mourn for every good man that’s died for us and you’d never get from bed to the chamber-pot.”

25. “Stop to mourn for every good man that’s died for us and you’d never get from bed to the chamber-pot.”

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