Why would you come to Italy to see Spanish steps? That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.

Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.

Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, " Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic.

There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

I don't care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

We can be beautiful at all ages. Feminine beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ways.