Top 81 Olympian Quotes
#1. You are a half-blood," Zoe Nightshade said. Her accent was hard to place. It sounded old-fashioned, like she was reading from a really old book. "One of thy parents was mortal. The other was an Olympian."
"An Olympian athlete?"
"No," Zoe said. "One of the gods."
"Cool!" said Nico.
Rick Riordan
#2. The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
Hannah Kearney
#3. When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'
Ryan Lochte
#4. I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.
Stephan James
#5. To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.
Pierre-Paul Grasse
#6. I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey.
Danielle De Niese
#7. needed my collegiate heroics to mean something more than just the Olympian like state of my liver.
Bodhi Alvarez
#8. The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#9. People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.
Amanda Beard
#10. But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.
Debi Thomas
#11. My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'
Kourtney Kardashian
#12. The entire floor teeming with full-humans watching their children skate, all of them hoping to be the breeder of the next gold Olympian.
Shelly Laurenston
#13. I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.
Derek Jacobi
#14. That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.
Wallace Stegner
#15. Archer, through all his deeper feelings, tasted the pleasurable excitement of being in a world where action followed on emotion with such Olympian speed.
Edith Wharton
#16. [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.
Elana Meyers
#17. Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all.
Rick Riordan
#18. To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct ... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.
Lorin Maazel
#19. Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.
Ivanka Trump
#20. When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
Brittany Bowe
#21. Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
Russell Mark
#22. There are parties, and then there are huge, major, blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice, go for the Olympian.
Rick Riordan
#23. Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:
We are but mortals, and must sing of men.
Theocritus
#24. I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.
Allyson Felix
#26. I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream.
Danielle De Niese
#27. You are not alone. You are part of the Olympian family. The gods have not abandoned you.
Rick Riordan
#28. That was one of the many reasons she loved him, even if he was an Olympian-sized pain in the podex
Rick Riordan
#29. So Aphrodite married Hephaestus and the celebrity ship Aphrophaestus completely dominated Olympian tabloid news for like a thousand years. Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No.
Rick Riordan
#30. I want you to show him to Zeth and the rest of the Olympian dogs who fight for us. (Noir)
Anything else, Master? Lick your boots? Wipe your ass? (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. From the moment that Watanabe locked eyes with Louie Zamperini, an officer, a famous Olympian, and a man for whom defiance was second nature, no man obsessed him more.
Laura Hillenbrand
#32. We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.
David Agus
#33. Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
Ajay Naidu
#34. When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
Lakshmi Mittal
#35. Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
Michael Diamond
#36. I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
P. J. O'Rourke
#37. From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.
Jimmy Reid
#38. My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
David Rudisha
#39. You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.
Shaun White
#40. I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.
Bryan Clay
#41. I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.
Lee Trevino
#42. I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.
Steve Nash
#43. The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
Joe Sakic
#44. Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
Susan Orlean
#45. I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.
Michael Light
#46. And why shouldn't Piper intimidate them? Aphrodite was the most ancient Olympian, born of the sea and the blood of Ouranos. She was older than Poseidon or Athena or even Zeus. And Piper was her daughter.
Rick Riordan
#48. You're the last Olympian," I said. "And the most important." "And why is that, Percy Jackson?" "Because Hope survives best at the hearth," I said.
Rick Riordan
#49. ...in his heart of hearts he could almost wish that, when he was grown up, his life should consist of nothing but nonsense: just music, love, literature, carefree friendship, a life brimming with glorious, intoxicating Olympian nonsense.
Agnar Mykle
#50. I'm a four-time national champion and a two-time Olympian, and no one can take that away from me. So whatever people have to say about me, that's their own problem because I'm freaking proud of what I've done, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it.
Jeremy Abbott
#51. Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.
Debi Thomas
#52. I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.
Ronda Rousey
#53. People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#54. I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian.
Rick Riordan
#55. Butterflies tickle my insides. "You either have an Olympian-sized sense of self-importance, or you're overcompensating for a lack of confidence.
Amanda Bouchet
#56. Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
Emile M. Cioran
#57. My God, Atticus, you look like you had an orgy with egg yolks and orange juice." "We might need a loofah," I admitted. "Dare I ask what happened?" "An Olympian exploded on us and it was yucky.
Kevin Hearne
#58. About the prophecy that Rachel did at the end of "The Last Olympian," Percy Jackson will participate this prophecy, along with Annabeth?
Sorry for spelling errors
Rick Riordan
#59. There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#60. NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Ambrose Bierce
#61. If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.
Allyson Felix
#62. The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.
Mason Cooley
#63. It would be more honest than this Olympian distance you maintain.
Daniel Menaker
#64. Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden of bodies, the sheer tedium of our confinement in the flesh?
Paul Russell
#65. The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
H.L. Mencken
#66. Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting
" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you ... did you bathe in the River Styx?"
"Don't change the subject."
"Percy! Did you or not?"
"Um ... maybe a little.
Rick Riordan
#67. With great power ... comes need to take a nap. Wake me up later
Rick Riordan
#68. Charlie ... " Silena's eyes were a million miles away. "See Charlie.
Rick Riordan
#69. You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.
Rick Riordan
#70. We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.
Rick Riordan
#71. My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.
Rick Riordan
#73. Then a shadow swooped under me, and thump - I was on Blackjack's back. It wasn't the most comfortable landing. In fact, when I yelled "OW!" my voice was an octave higher than usual.
Rick Riordan
#74. Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!
Rick Riordan
#75. It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.
Rick Riordan
#76. As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.
Rick Riordan
#77. Dreams do come true...never stop believing.
Josh Davis
#78. It almost made me long for the flying pig.
Percy
Rick Riordan
#79. Hope does not leave without being given permission.
Rick Riordan
#80. Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue."
Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, he muttered, but he flew as close as he could, dodging the flying statue.
Rick Riordan
#81. The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times, chased her tail just to teach it who was boss, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.
Rick Riordan
