FastSaying

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.


Rick Pitino

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When you have mergers and acquisitions that improve the quality of your product, the ability to grow...
ROGER AGNELLI How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... America's economic crisis has impaired it's ability to do unlimited mischief around the world. Ironi...
MUHAMMED HAIDER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. As you improve what you do, you automatically increase the quality of your thoughts.
LORRIN L. LEE What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.
DAVID BOWIE Basically, what we try to do every year is improve the quality.
GWEN BISHOP The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c...
ANUJ SOMANY Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It is also important that we offer as good of value in our services as is practical. That is the und...
JAMES MURPHY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH the human mind’s ability to rationalize its own shortcomings into virtues is unlimited,
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA What everyone is searching for today is the scale to reduce costs and improve the ability to compete...
ROGER AGNELLI Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT I have very little optimism that the quality of the veteran teaching force is going to improve.
KATE WALSH Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN This all affects the quality of life in Bordentown Township, ... and that's what we are trying to do...
BRUCE HILL We now have what, for the general public, would appear at least to be a rather ludicrous situation. ...
MIKE DEWINE Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st...
PATRICK EWING What we're trying to do is improve our ability to put the finest baseball team on the field.
MARK LAMPING Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimit...
JOHN BRADSHAW I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To my wonderful readers:
Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHA...
RICK RIORDAN The ability to offer indoor-outdoor coverage is something Cisco can uniquely offer.
BRETT GALLOWAY Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Our purpose is to improve the quality of life for our residents.
HAROLD NECTOW I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of your ability to let go and forgive.
ANIL GUPTA - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Excellence is ever changing dynamism in our personal journey of growth and It is ever growing person...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Fiscal policy is bad and we need to improve the quality of spending.
GERALDO ALCKMIN You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI With the Internet and the ability to download onto portable devices, what reps are able to do market...
HARVEY LEEDS Mind you, that's not to say presentation is everything. At the end of the day, it really doesn't mat...
PETER BOLTON This is the way to make things work for you. Put your ability to work
SOTONYE ANGA The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless ...
VINCENT LOMBARDI The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.
RICK RIORDAN Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for g...
RICK RIORDAN Excellence is achieved when you realize how small your existence is, and what role you have in your ...
ANDREW WORKMAN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA To be or not to be that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang...
LEON C. MEGGINSON To question reason is to trust it.
MITCH STOKES

More Rick Pitino

Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon...
RICK PITINO The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand w...
RICK PITINO Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making m...
RICK PITINO Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of...
RICK PITINO The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he jus...
RICK PITINO I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If t...
RICK PITINO Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace a...
RICK PITINO Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing...
RICK PITINO Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether...
RICK PITINO The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as...
RICK PITINO Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
RICK PITINO When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
RICK PITINO I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will...
RICK PITINO Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned f...
RICK PITINO Their guys have so much experience they're on Social Security. They're getting checks. They've been ...
RICK PITINO We just got destroyed on the backboards. Then we panicked and took some bad shots. It was just one o...
RICK PITINO We've never been a Top 20 team, at least not yet. Don't get carried away with beating Louisville. An...
RICK PITINO The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.
RICK PITINO Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.
RICK PITINO I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the...
RICK PITINO You've just got to gut it out. It's going to be a tough year.
RICK PITINO Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much ex...
RICK PITINO A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of e...
RICK PITINO I think they'll come back because they should. One more year and they'll be ready for the next level...
RICK PITINO It's unfair to judge coaches just on the (NCAA) Tournament record. It's a numbers game. If you keep ...
RICK PITINO It's not for entertainment. It's going to be a very intense practice. We're not going to hold back b...
RICK PITINO Veterans should know better. We learned a valuable lesson of when to shoot and when not to shoot. Wh...
RICK PITINO I think we showed tremendous guts and heart down the stretch. Getting behind against Richmond was th...
RICK PITINO Last year we had five or six guys in double figures, we don't have that right now. We have so much r...
RICK PITINO This group is inexperienced, but once they start practicing together more, I think the sky is the li...
RICK PITINO I always liked the way he ran the floor, and he's willing to be real physical inside. He needs to wo...
RICK PITINO I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their seni...
RICK PITINO Even in the pros, I loved to watch March Madness. It brings back so many good memories and it?s a lo...
RICK PITINO I just love the whole atmosphere, ... To see East Tennessee State almost beat Wake Forest, the St. J...
RICK PITINO The formula I always use for picking teams is whoever has the most talent in the junior and senior ...
RICK PITINO I think it's going to cut the life expectancy of us coaches in half,
RICK PITINO For him, we're being overly cautious. We kept him on crutches a month longer. He's gotten clearance ...
RICK PITINO He is special to our game. He is needed in our game, because everyone wants to coach someone with 13...
RICK PITINO He rebounds well. He has great moves inside in the low post. He'll give us a lot this year.
RICK PITINO It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philo...
RICK PITINO It's very special because I love the young men that I coached,
RICK PITINO There was a little trepidation on my part [at first], but when he called me, there was no trepidatio...
RICK PITINO We'll attempt to out-think one another, but once the game is over, we'll go back to being good frien...
RICK PITINO He's a cancer survivor himself, and he's lost relatives and close friends, like Jim Valvano, to the ...
RICK PITINO I think David is a true student of the game. I told him (before Connecticut), 'David, if you keep ju...
RICK PITINO Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and pro...
RICK PITINO I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hou...
RICK PITINO He's just a prolific scorer. He is great at hitting runners in the lane and he has great range on hi...
RICK PITINO They're going to have to get a coach as good as Bob Huggins, and that's not easy to find. But if the...
RICK PITINO You can't let Pittsburgh come at you, ... You can't let Connecticut come at you. You can't let West ...
RICK PITINO They get up so high on their threes and they spread you. Jay makes a mockery of everything I try to ...
RICK PITINO When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a dif...
RICK PITINO The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand w...
RICK PITINO He's not 100 percent. First it's the ankle, now it's leg cramps. He's been a little unlucky this yea...
RICK PITINO Herb is the antithesis of Jim. You don't get a lot of frills with Herb.
RICK PITINO They were great shots. I couldn't diagram better shots than that.
RICK PITINO Billy coached as perfect a game as I've ever seen in a national championship game. It reminded me of...
RICK PITINO When I realized Billy was going to the Final Four, I went shopping for a tie. Bought it in New York.
RICK PITINO Kevin reminds me a lot of a young Billy Donovan.
RICK PITINO He always calls me up and says, it's 'Billy The Kid. He's going to have to say it's 'Billy The Coach...
RICK PITINO It's a big hindrance. If we were playing in the Maui Classic, we'd be in seriously bad shape. But we...
RICK PITINO Bob Huggins, a lot of times, is misunderstood. He's someone who cares a great deal about his players...
RICK PITINO I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand i...
RICK PITINO Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.
RICK PITINO We've got to stop Gray inside. Padgett really played well against him and Brian and Terrance aren't ...
RICK PITINO He was the biggest cheater the game has ever known. I told Jim he shouldn't be wearing glasses becau...
RICK PITINO They are tough, they get after you. They have quick hands and are hard-nosed. They drive so much and...
RICK PITINO We just got destroyed on the backboard then panicked and took some bad shots.
RICK PITINO I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I th...
RICK PITINO We got what we deserved from the first day of practice until right now. We showed remarkable charact...
RICK PITINO It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in p...
RICK PITINO This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wil...
RICK PITINO Marquette-Louisville has always been that way. We have played each other tough and battled. We had t...
RICK PITINO We may have survived a little bit if we were in Conference USA with this team, but surviving in the ...
RICK PITINO For a while it was so swollen it looked like cement blocks were on both sides of ankle.
RICK PITINO I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning ...
RICK PITINO What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell the...
RICK PITINO He's very underrated for what he does for the team. With BJ there's just not a lot of flash. He's ju...
RICK PITINO Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav...
RICK PERRY And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st...
RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have...
RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of...
RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ...
RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a...
RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi...
RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame...
RICK RENZI Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect...
RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An...
RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;...
RICK PERRY I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ...
RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel...
RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr...
RICK MORANIS You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.
RICK YANCEY As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B...
RICK LARSEN I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
RICK RIORDAN Technically, even on inspection, it was against camp rules for two campers of the opposite sex to be...
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the econo...
RICK SCOTT Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athen...
RICK RIORDAN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs…
“Okay,�...
RICK RIORDAN Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”
Then he gasped and pointed to th...
RICK RIORDAN Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.
RICK RIORDAN I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said. "I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies l...
RICK RIORDAN Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies
RICK RIORDAN Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evi...
RICK RIORDAN I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people in...
RICK RIORDAN Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drin...
RICK RIORDAN On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to...
RICK RIORDAN Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!
RICK RIORDAN Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn...
RICK RIORDAN I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better busine...
RICK SCOTT The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders ...
RICK BASS Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
RICK PERRY I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side...
RICK ALLEN If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost ...
RICK RENZI Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ra...
RICK PERLSTEIN Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.
RICK YUNE I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
RICK PERLSTEIN Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g...
RICK PERRY I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ...
RICK YANCEY I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the b...
RICK BAYLESS There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But th...
RICK PERRY Um," Grover said. "Percy?"
"Yeah?"
"I thought you'd want to know."
"Yeah?"
"Cerb...
RICK RIORDAN We ought to be bragging about Florida!
RICK SCOTT It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
RICK MERCER Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my ...
RICK PERLSTEIN Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That�...
RICK RIORDAN You can keep watch, in case – you know, the lake decides to attack us or something." - Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
RICK MOODY Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve...
RICK SANTELLI He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
RICK RIORDAN Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally emba...
RICK RIORDAN I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Wes...
RICK RIORDAN Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I me...
RICK RIORDAN I wanted to argue but I found I couldn't. Athena was pretty darn smart.
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of lov...
RICK RIORDAN Headache!" Zeus bellowed. "Bad. bad headache!"
As if to prove his point, the lord of the univer...
RICK RIORDAN your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty ...
RICK RIORDAN Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. I...
RICK RIORDAN The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. ...
RICK RIORDAN People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't e...
RICK RIORDAN Athena stood in the middle of the road with her arms crossed and a look on her face that made me thi...
RICK RIORDAN Athena called, "Annabeth Chase, my own daughter."
Annabeth squeezed my arm, then walked forward...
RICK RIORDAN I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, ...
RICK RIORDAN She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly...
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you ...
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. “A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn’t attract en...
RICK RIORDAN The cord, a familiar voice said. Remember your lifeline, dummy!
Suddenly there was a tug in my ...
RICK RIORDAN You sneaked into my cabin?”
Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two ...
RICK RIORDAN I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."
We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of c...
RICK RIORDAN And,” Annabeth continued, “it reminds me how long we’ve known each other. We were twelve RICK RIORDAN He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth a...
RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
RICK RIORDAN I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? Yo...
RICK RIORDAN Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the wa...
RICK RIORDAN This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN You drool when you sleep.
RICK RIORDAN Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"
I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
RICK RIORDAN I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou...
RICK RIORDAN Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"

I don't hate you."

Could've foole...
RICK RIORDAN Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the...
RICK RIORDAN It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive...
RICK RIORDAN Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi...
RICK RIORDAN She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"

You'd probably ki...
RICK RIORDAN Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.

"It only works on wild animals....
RICK RIORDAN Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?
Annabeth: Come back alive,...
RICK RIORDAN You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ...
RICK RIORDAN What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. B...
RICK RIORDAN The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w...
RICK RIORDAN A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo...
RICK RIORDAN Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
RICK RIORDAN Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf...
RICK RIORDAN It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
RICK RIORDAN What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
RICK YANCEY Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?
Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?
RICK RIORDAN I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"Bu...
RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really."
Her...
RICK RIORDAN It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv...
RICK RIORDAN Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mor...
RICK RIORDAN You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
RICK RIORDAN Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as fa...
RICK RIORDAN I said hello to the poodle.
RICK RIORDAN Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter."

RICK RIORDAN Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.<...
RICK RIORDAN