Povey Quotes & Sayings

You have to realize what you don't know before you can learn about it. — Christopher Jones

I love it when you talk clean to me, quoting training manuals like sonnets. — Amanda Hocking

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place. — Ron Rash

Bran could not take his eyes off the blood. The snows around the stump drank it eagerly, reddening as he watched. — George R R Martin

All right, here comes the philosophy. You can leave if you like but I suggest you stick it out. You don't measure your own success against the size or volume of the effect you're having. You gauge it from the difference you make to the subject you're working on. Is leading an army that wins a war really that much more satisfying than teaching a four-year-old to ride a bicycle? At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can." In the back of the pony trap, squashed beside his two large boxes, Siri still felt Daeng's lip prints on his cheek and heard her whisper, "Go for the small things and do them well." It would be his new mantra. Forget the planet, save the garden. — Colin Cotterill

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft. — Kate Mulgrew

What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let her son live and to spare her from the life of a cripple? Or was the power behind destiny merely a natural mechanism, a force no different in origin from gravity or magnetism? — Dean Koontz

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge. — David Weinberger