“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 from On Stranger Tides
“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 from On Stranger Tides
“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again.
'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies,
'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.'
Davies pushed a stray lock of hair back from his forehead and sat down on the rower's thwart. 'My dear fellow consider it done.”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“Por la escalera, hacia la luz del sol, fueron saliendo el cocinero (que, obviamente, había seguido la vieja costumbre de enfrentarse a un desastre en la mar emborrachándose tan rápida y concienzudamente como le fue posible) […]”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“As soon as I get a ship that can take to the open seas, I'm going to find and rescue and - if there's any worth in me - marry the only woman in whom I can see both a body and a face, and with whom I need not resign one or the other of my own.”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“Blessed be the soul, and the Lord that keeps it in order; blessed be the day, and the Lord that drives it away.”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“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 from On Stranger Tides
Tim Powers
Born place: in Buffalo, New York, The United States
Born date February 29, 1952
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“The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.”
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“I mean, there is a reason its initials are VD. I bet you more people contract syphilis on Valentine's Day than on any other day of the year. What a cause for celebration.”
― Kody Keplinger, quote from The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
“There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now.
See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Angels' Blood
“Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.”
― Rick Warren, quote from The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them.”
― Lawrence Durrell, quote from The Alexandria Quartet
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