Tim Powers Professions : Author Born : February 29, 1952 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Tim Powers The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too. Tim Powers wages lad 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 fire boys 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 beast drink world Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. Tim Powers errors problem answers The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink. Tim Powers vessel sea weather It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail. Tim Powers fairs fairness mail 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 people thinking 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 ive-learned fire fun Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors