Top 72 Neptune's Quotes
#1. Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You do have a plan?"
Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, No, I don't!
Rick Riordan
#2. Ella, just stay here. Stay safe."
"Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson."
"What?" Percy said. "Oh ... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary - "
"ROOOF."
"How do you feel about pulling a chariot?
Rick Riordan
#3. Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.
Rick Riordan
#4. You're Neptune, right?" she asked. "Lord of the sea who washed up on the beach during the storm? Do you perform miracles? Because I could use a couple of them tonight.
Olivia Cunning
#5. As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.
Rick Riordan
#6. In the birth charts of tarot readers, Neptune tends to figure prominently, often in aspect to the Moon, which is also related to intuition and psychic awareness.
Anthony Louis
#7. Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked.
"No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.
Rick Riordan
#8. Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like a great-great- ... Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother."
"Thanks." Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.
Rick Riordan
#9. No more Lastrygonians." Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.
Rick Riordan
#11. Neptune can sense that I love him; his multiple desires are perfectly clear to me. What charms me about the whole business is that he stubbornly insists on remaining a dog, whereas his mistress would like to make a gentleman of him.
Muriel Barbery
#12. Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples!
Rick Riordan
#13. [Iris] squeezed his hand. Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.
Rick Riordan
#15. He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
Publilius Syrus
#17. We were surrounded by thirty-foot-tall giants who were about to kill us. Then the sky opened up, and the gods descended."
"Grandad," the kids said, "you are full of schist."
"I'm not kidding!" he protested.
Rick Riordan
#18. Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!
Rick Riordan
#19. Frank nodded grimly. Well ... any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can't be all bad. Let's go.
Rick Riordan
#20. Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky
#22. All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
Jean Racine
#23. A hopeless exile from his native home, From death alone exempt - but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wish'd return; Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the gods in vain.
Homer
#24. Among all the loftier things we might say about it, Neptune is really, really weird.
Steven Forrest
#25. In Neptune, the past was always grabbing at your ankles, trying to pull you back.
Rob Thomas
#26. Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry ...
J.K. Rowling
#27. If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#28. Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I'm the son of Poseidon. I'm from Camp Half-Blood.
Rick Riordan
#29. Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, "Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters."
More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.
Rick Riordan
#30. Tell her this
And more,
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.
Stephen Crane
#31. You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing."
"Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too."
Percy turned pale. "Excuse me?
Rick Riordan
#32. There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it ... and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?
Rick Riordan
#33. Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-"
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.
Rick Riordan
#34. If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.
Lucretius
#35. So down and down and down and down
And down and down we go
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua
World so very dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.
Jimi Hendrix
#36. They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?
Rick Riordan
#37. The irregularities of the motion of Uranus ... in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.
[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]
John Couch Adams
#38. Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?"
Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.
Rick Riordan
#39. Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!
Rick Riordan
#40. Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes ... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#41. What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!
Percy had no intention of doing that.
Rick Riordan
#42. I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#43. Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
Rick Riordan
#44. Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
Rick Riordan
#46. Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune
Naoko Takeuchi
#47. Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope. - Iris, Rainbow Goddess
Rick Riordan
#48. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive."
SMASH!
"Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.
Rick Riordan
#49. Ever heard the tale of Neptune's Children?
Mark Simo
#50. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
#51. I closed my eyes and the roof was gone. I could see the stars while the piano tinkled. I could see Jupiter and it was blue, and Neptune was silver like a tennis ball sprayed silver. I could reach out and touch it, like cold water.
Heather O'Neill
#52. At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson thrillers, and a throne from about a thousand copies of something called The Five Habits of Highly Aggressive Women.
Rick Riordan
#53. The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ...
Muse
#54. Veronica eased the car forward, narrowly missing two girls who stopped in the middle of the street to light each other's cigarettes. They both held up their middle fingers in perfect unison. Veronica cheerfully flipped them off in return, then took a right toward Neptune's Warehouse District.
Rob Thomas
#55. No evil ever came from a woman's womb that wasn't placed there first by a man.' ... Tantie Neptune, Lucifer's Key by Charles A. Cornell, due 2013
Charles A. Cornell
#56. Our planet Earth has a diameter of 0.04 light-seconds. Neptune's orbit spans 8 light-hours. The stars of the Milky Way galaxy delineate a broad, flat disk about 100,000 light-years across. And the Virgo supercluster of galaxies, to which the Milky Way belongs, extends some 60 million light-years.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#57. When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.
Will Gluck
#58. To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
Joshua Slocum
#59. Le Verrier - without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky - had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!
Camille Flammarion
#60. You're so unfair, Michiru ... To leave into your own world ... Don't leave me alone ... -Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus
Naoko Takeuchi
#61. The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.
Rick Riordan
#62. He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
Publilius Syrus
#63. Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me when every noise appals me?
What hands are here! Ha - they pluck out mine eyes!
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
William Shakespeare
#64. June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.
Rick Riordan
#65. Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.
Bob Dylan
#66. England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune.
William Shakespeare
#67. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
Rick Riordan
#68. Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?
Rick Riordan
#69. Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.
Percival Lowell
#70. Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
Rick Riordan
#71. We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
William Herschel
#72. I can't believe how much this place has grown," Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. "Been a long time since you visited, miss?"
"About seventy years," Hazel said.
The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.
Rick Riordan
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