Lightning Thief Percy Quotes & Sayings

Only death rescues us from dying. — Mason Cooley

I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson (Lightning Thief) — Rick Riordan

So, which one are you? The right or the wrong woman?"
I looked him in the eyes and answered, "Both. — Nicole Williams

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects. — B.K.S. Iyengar

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. — Matt Drudge

BOOKS BY RICK RIORDAN PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS The Lightning Thief — Rick Riordan

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. — John Foster Dulles

Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."
He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.) — Rick Riordan

The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men. — Siri Hustvedt

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. — Huston Smith

Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"
That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"
No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite! — Rick Riordan

Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes. — Tony Blair

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment. — Chaz Bufe

I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world. — Fred Hampton

I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death. — Karen Marie Moning

They chose the olive"
"They must really like olives"
"Forget it"
"Now if she invented pizza that i can understand"
-Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif — Rick Riordan

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people. — Lori Lansens

It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia. — Ian McEwan

Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. — Rick Riordan