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AL LEITER These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
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JOSEPH MURPHY It's funny but last year I went through the same thing. Both goalies went down at the same time, And...
ADAM MUNRO I made a mistake there on the restart. Craig (Stanton) took me down about 20 feet deep down into the...
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RICK JAMES He's my backbone. He's taught me a lot. For starters, he tempered me down.
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WILLIAM SAFIRE I just don't think anyone was as aggressive (in Citrus County) as we are this year.
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MIKE KITCHEN Previously, we've been able to absorb cuts by using salvaged funds from the year before. This year, ...
LISA SCHRADER I don't see how he could say it was them that vandalized previously.
DANNY SMITH Previously we've had just the two cells down there and for a population of this size those two cells...
ERIC TAYLOR I haven't seen excitement in this ballpark like last (Saturday) since Stanton Cameron hit that three...
BOB BOWEN The Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in partnership with the Local Childcare Planning Council ...
DIANE SIRI We have 4,000 homes with a 10-year build-out coming into the county. We've been able to use the coun...
CHAD ADAMS He taught me a lesson, ... Never slow down.
FRANK MIDDLETON No justice is perfect from the business community standpoint.
STANTON ANDERSON We made some mental errors at key times. Kim Anderson has done a great job filling in for Sarah.
ANDREA FORD I got my first Palm Beach County Championship in track. I'm running like I should at this time of ye...
MICHAEL BURKE At the end of the 15th year, the county would reimburse Scripps the total expended on the premium, w...
SHANNON LAROCQUE Both Rick and Bryan played enough to letter last year. Both have played well at times, but lack cons...
DAN BROWN I've taught everything, ... I've taught kindergarten. I've taught adult school at night. I taught ma...
DONNA KING (Silver Creek is) very similar to Pueblo County. They're just as big as County and they have guards ...
ZACH ODELL It's an honor to win. I can go places just by being Youth of the Year for Indian River County and it...
JOSH JONES Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
EDGAR WRIGHT This was a good win. Anytime we play Anderson County it's a rivalry, and we've got to be focused and...
DONNIE WILLIAMS Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time --

'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on ...
VERA NAZARIAN For the most part, what we're seeing is folks are ... selling their houses down in Montgomery County...
JEFF MATTHEWS In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by ...
PAUL HEYSE My granddaddy was Man of the Year for Agriculture in 1950 for the whole county. He blended the socia...
GLENN DICKMAN We need a golf course in this county for the citizens of this county. I think this is the right time...
HECTOR RODRIGUEZ Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke ...
TOM ARAYA My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the sch...
SAM ABELL Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. ...
PETE ROSE We are interested in reviewing any and all procedures that were undertaken to cross-reference these ...
MICHAEL TONER I've been looking at this position for about a year now and I like what it has to offer. With my bac...
CAROL MITCHELL Pamela Anderson wore a red swimsuit.
JASON BAY I have seen many ups and down. Every down taught me that I can not control everything AND Every up t...
MAKBUL RAJ You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to ...
BORIS PASTERNAK It's a great way to start off our year, adding more jobs for our residents and seeing our county gro...
GEORGE GRAHAM We won the county baseball championship four years in a row and were in the state playoffs each year...
PAT ADKISON Swimmer performance was awesome for the first meet ever in Nelson County High School history. Specta...
AMANDA HILL While most kids had Pam Anderson posters on their walls, Nick had Pam Anderson and airplanes. It was...
KURT KOEPPEN My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.
SARA GILBERT And there's a good chance that it will create close to 1,000 jobs for Anderson.
ART PATTERSON I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would...
TUCKER CARLSON No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for ...
KIP PARDUE I was behind Rick Dempsey in the Orioles organization and I wasn't getting any younger.
DAVE HUPPERT [Singer Marian Anderson was investigated in 1958 when the State Department considered her for] a top...
PAUL ROBESON The increases come through quite often, when previously you might get something once a year, The con...
CRAIG KEMMERER A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINS I said, 'Bryan, let's walk together.' In 95 degrees, we walked five miles to Anderson.
DICK RILEY If the projected 20 percent cuts in funding for the 2006-2007 fiscal year occur, it will cripple the...
EDUARDO OLIVAREZ The increase in local funds is comparable to last year, so it's consistent. But the overall fiscal s...
JOSHUA KAUFMAN So then he comes in and I says 'Listen, b*tch, ahm Rick James.'
DAVE CHAPPELLE I think it's going to be great for the county. It will provide a lot of extra income for the county.
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JEAN RAGS That's super for a 15-year-old sophomore in her first trip down here,
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MARSHAWN LYNCH Miracles only grow where you plant them.
CECELIA AHERN AHERN But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.
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CECELIA AHERN AHERN Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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Percy: the ...
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His hair was grease...
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“Okay,�...
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Then he gasped and pointed to th...
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"Yeah?"
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"He's the sun god," I said.
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As if to prove his point, the lord of the univer...
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Annabeth squeezed my arm, then walked forward...
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RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.”
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Jason shrugged....
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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...
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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 Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.

Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson...
RICK RIORDAN You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats th...
RICK RIORDAN Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
RICK RIORDAN The real world is where the monsters are.
RICK RIORDAN It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
RICK RIORDAN I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
RICK RIORDAN We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
RICK RIORDAN Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of h...
RICK RIORDAN The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human b...
RICK RIORDAN She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbre...
RICK RIORDAN Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”
“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”...
RICK RIORDAN Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!
RICK RIORDAN She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a...
RICK RIORDAN Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.
RICK RIORDAN Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge fin...
RICK RIORDAN Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a tot...
RICK RIORDAN Um...is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so...
RICK RIORDAN Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of wha...
RICK RIORDAN Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we ...
RICK RIORDAN He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank...
RICK RIORDAN Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the ...
RICK RIORDAN Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in ...
RICK RIORDAN Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a ...
RICK RIORDAN Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?
RICK RIORDAN They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a littl...
RICK RIORDAN Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decid...
RICK RIORDAN That's because we keep weapons in the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time m...
RICK RIORDAN Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy ...
RICK RIORDAN Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ...
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu...
RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
RICK RIORDAN