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SMEDLEY BUTLER Тo me, the future doesn’t seem real. It’s just this magical place where I can put my responsibi...
ALLIE BROSH And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south tw...
BIBLE There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two...
ELIE WIESEL And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
BIBLE There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two...
ELIE WIESEL The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, / Beside th...
BIBLE Sixty-nine miles per hour is very, very fast when you're dealing with a 10-mile-an-hour restriction.
MARK ROSENKER Three hundred and fifty additional confirmed and probable cases of mumps have been reported from sev...
CHRISTOPHER COX And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: / And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Ja...
BIBLE And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand...
BIBLE The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I r...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN We average...our average speed is probably between eight-to-ten-miles-per-hour.
LARRY MOORE So I was thinking, there're eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds in a day, right? There're one ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
WILLIAM FAULKNER And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty ...
BIBLE His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxe...
BIBLE There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons w...
BILL KLEM At a hundred and twenty five miles per hour, with the wind rushing in his face, darkness around him,...
TY PATTERSON And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: / And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred ...
BIBLE of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr...
RICK MORANIS If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the E...
WENDY MASS He passed me about a hundred miles an hour up here in front of the park, swerved out in front of me,...
NATHANIAL SHOBE Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour un...
CARL HIAASEN Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physician...
VOLTAIRE Eight hundred people came out to show their love and it means a great deal to the family. It was ver...
JAY GALLAGHER And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
BIBLE A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a sec...
VICTOR HUGO Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now c...
MARK TWAIN He took off as fast as the bike could go. He was probably going over 100 miles per hour.
RYAN CALDWELL Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, squar...
BIBLE We've got the fact that the Cadillac was going 45 miles per hour in the fast lane of the highway. .....
STEVE WOLFSON A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles
CHINESE PROVERBS When I moved here I had a two bedroom, simple, 900 square feet, and rent was eight to nine hundred. ...
KENT ANDERSON Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundre...
LISA TAWN BERGREN And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
BIBLE I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.
J.K. ROWLING I played high school football at a hundred and eighty-five pounds and played big league baseball at ...
RYNE SANDBERG You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust.
JESSICA FORTUNATO Sixty-nine miles an hour is very, very fast when you're dealing with a 10-mile-an-hour restriction,
MARK ROSENKER A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
LEWIS HALLAM I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Don't go too fast on the freeway 'cause every five miles you go over 60 miles per hour uses up, like...
DAVID MARTINEZ When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hun...
YANNI I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
CHUCK BARRIS It is really bumpy, you can imagine coming through here at a hundred (miles per hour). There is anot...
LEIGHTON REESE Basically, they ruined a six- or seven-hundred dollar calf.
LARRY LITTLE It's eight minutes of fast heart rate.
DOUG MORSE Exits on roads were blocked off for a hundred miles, you had to keep going and couldn't look back.
AMY WILSON I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spo...
JAMES DICKEY And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
BIBLE All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ There is no silver here: three hundred taels.
CHINESE PROVERBS I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other f...
BIBLE Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
AMBROSE BIERCE Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hun...
DEREK LANDY For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour (metric equivalent: 37...
DAVE BARRY Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING It's a very momentous occasion. We've kept the province going for the first hundred years and the pr...
BETH TESKEY And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And a hundred visions and revisions
T.S. ELIOT Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars is the annual aggregate income of African Americans. That ec...
KENNETH KAUNDA For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE The fox is one hundred years old its' child is one hundred and ten.
GREEK PROVERB Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine—
KRESLEY COLE Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres o...
ROBERT GROSSETESTE It's like jumping on a treadmill when it's going eight miles an hour. When he got off, it was going ...
BRAD SHAW Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These people keep several hundred dollars with them. If you rob three or four in one night, you can ...
BILL BUTLER I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.
PATRICK NESS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Wisdom has a hundred eyes to see opportunities, courage has a hundred feet to seek opportunities, an...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Taking a half hour to walk a hundred feet is kinda it's hard.
SHAINA RASMUSSEN What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
CHINESE PROVERB And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an h...
BIBLE Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
PAUL WHITEMAN People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can w...
SHERRILYN KENYON That's like an hour and 10 minutes per song. I think that's pretty fast.
DEE MILLER A hundred and fifty years ago, this was just a continent. You could move to the borders and start a ...
WALTER KIRN Eight miners are still underground and the rescue teams are trying to locate them. A hundred-and-thi...
GORDON MILLER This area is some three hundred feet long, but it's very narrow, so we'll have to take a look at how...
WALTER ELMORE Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after...
ZAHI HAWASS Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained – mummy aft...
ZAHI HAWASS Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn...
SARAH PARCAK Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...
NEIL GAIMAN It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.
JIM SHERIDAN A hundred percent? I don't know that.
HERMAN EDWARDS A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.
GARTH NIX If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a h...
GEORGE BURNS I think we've accomplished that. Now we've got people coming from, I've heard, a hundred to two hund...
LORI ROSEN It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts ...
SASHA MIZAREE Sixty-nine miles an hour [110 km/h] is very, very fast when you're dealing with a 10-mile-an-hour [1...
MARK ROSENKER Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
MAO ZEDONG There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.
JOAQUIN ANDUJAR If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the peo...
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RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see.
RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh...
RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th...
RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i...
RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.
RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a...
RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace....
RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’
‘How can you even talk to me like t...
RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?"

He shrugged. "Techn...
RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.
RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile....
RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend...
RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro...
RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol...
RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind...
RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla...
RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand...
RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga...
RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin...
RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
RICK RIORDAN How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between...
RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a...
RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion.The Tita...
RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.”
Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i...
RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc...
RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!
RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s...
RICK RIORDAN