Piper Quotes

#1. Hey!" Jason yelled, flying circles around her. "I have a question about my deductibles!" "What?" the statue cried. "Hygeia!" Piper shouted. "I need an invoice submitted to Medicare!" "No, please!

Rick Riordan

#2. Piper, we don't kill people. Even when there are dead people lying around us.

Martha

#3. Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:
"You love to figure out things as much as I do," Piper said.
"Like what?" Bill asked.
"You fix broken stuff," Piper replied.
"Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.

Ed Lynskey

#4. She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack her.

Rick Riordan

#5. I'm a t-terrible h-human."
"No," Piper whispered. "If you want that statement to be true, then you need to remove the adjective.

Jewel E. Ann

#6. I, Brody, promise to love you, Lucy and Piper, just as much as I love your mommy. I promise to love you and protect you and always take care of you, no matter what. From this day forward, you will always and forever be my Twinkies. I also promise to always kill all the spiders.

Beth Ehemann

#7. Leo laughed. "I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny. But yeah, her dad's Tristan McLean." "Uh - Sorry, what was he in?" "It doesn't matter," Piper said quickly.

Rick Riordan

#8. Gaea?" Leo shook his head. "Isn't that Mother Nature? She's supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry."
"Leo, that's Snow White," Piper said.

Rick Riordan

#9. Why do we write fiction? Professor Piper asked.
Cath looked down at her notebook.
To disappear.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Take me with you?" she asked, reaching for is arm. He looked back at were the four women stood watching them and shook his head.
"I've seen Piper ruin a whole gaming area, Harper scares me, Elli is my boss, and I want your mom to like me...Sorry babe, you're on your own.

Toni Aleo

#11. Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole."
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

Rick Riordan

#12. I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

Meg Rosoff

#13. Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

Brent Weeks

#14. Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

Robert M. Lindner

#15. Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

John Ray

#17. Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes

Anne McCaffrey

#18. there is a saying that 'he who pays the piper calls for the tune'.

Mercy

#19. A cold, miserable little hamlet on the eastern coast of America called Piper's Grave.

Susanna Clarke

#20. Hi," Piper said, as casually as she could. "We're back.

Rick Riordan

#21. Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him?

Tina Brown

#22. Work with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#23. I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.

Sydney Carter

#24. I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

R. Kelly

#25. Piper, don't hate Valentine's day," he says. I sigh and look down at him. His eyes are still closed. "I'll be your Valentine.

Heather Hepler

#26. Madoc cleared his throat. "Dr. Porter. Nate and Piper bumped into each other."
Oh, my god. I was convinced. Madoc was an idiot.

Penelope Douglas

#27. Maybe Piper could shoot their enemies with high-velocity smoked hams.

Rick Riordan

#28. because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper

Meg Rosoff

#29. Piper's dad used to say that being in the airport didn't count as visiting a city. Piper felt the same
way about sewers.

Rick Riordan

#30. When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

Edward James Olmos

#31. I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.

Rainbow Rowell

#32. The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

Meriwether Lewis

#33. Annabeth stumbled and almost slipped on the giant's severed ear. 'We need to get out of here.'
'I'm working on it,' Piper said.
'And, uh, I think this ear is your spoil of war.'
'Gross.'
'Would make a lovely shield.'
'Shut up, Chase.

Rick Riordan

#34. Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever.

Rick Riordan

#35. Open brow and his fearless eyes. There were thousands like him all over the land of the maple. Let the Piper

L.M. Montgomery

#36. Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

L.M. Montgomery

#37. Am I desiring and seeking the temporal and eternal good of my neighbor with the same zeal, ingenuity and perseverance that I seek my own? - John Piper

Matt Perman

#38. I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

John Hurt

#39. Piper, I want another chance. I'll make it right, I swear. You'll never be sorry if you give me another chance to love you the way you deserve. I won't be the fool this time. I'll be there, no matter what the cost. I swear it.

Alexia Purdy

#40. Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

Cornelia Funke

#41. Leo scratched his head. Well, I dunno about enchiladas- "Enceladus" Piper corrected. Whatever. But Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear, or something?

Rick Riordan

#42. I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.

R. Kelly

#43. Beautiful,' Jason exclaimed. 'Piper, you ... you're a knockout.

Rick Riordan

#44. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine ...

Jennifer Donnelly

#45. He'd never thought of beauty as a form of power, but that's the way Piper had seemed - powerful.

Rick Riordan

#46. Piper, stop," he said in that firm, bossy voice.
I stopped.
I don't get how those guys can ignore that tone.
"Turn around."
I turned around.
"Fuck," he murmured.
Why can't that be an order?

Layla Frost

#47. silent. Walter had been reading again that day in his beloved book of myths and he remembered how he had once fancied the Pied Piper coming down the valley on an evening

L.M. Montgomery

#48. Piper patted his shoulder. Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.

Rick Riordan

#49. Then, people butchered animals all the time for meat or hide or shell or whatever. This is why my friend Piper became a vegetarian.)

Rick Riordan

#50. Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

John F. Kennedy

#51. If not for the horses, Piper would've died.

Rick Riordan

#52. he didn't look as good as Piper had last night after she'd suddenly been transformed.

Rick Riordan

#53. Piper McLean," [Annabeth] grumbled, "that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.

Rick Riordan

#54. Jason," Piper said. "The original Jason. But then you're - you should be dead!

Rick Riordan

#55. Piper's attention focused. All right. I zoned out there, but what? Skip all the feelings parts.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!

Roddy Piper

#57. Piper didn't dare look - not while she was running with a dagger in her hand. She could just see herself tripping and stabbing herself in the nose. That would be super heroic.

Rick Riordan

#58. Pink Floyd in The 60s.
Piper at The Gates of Dawn (1967)
Singles and B-sides, outtakes
A Saucerful of Secrets
More
Ummagumma
Zabriskie Point (recorded Dec. 69)
Pretty damned impressive!

Sienna McQuillen

#59. For in the end, it is not Edwards or Piper or any other man who compels true faith, but God himself.

John Piper

#60. They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn't sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

Rick Riordan

#61. He was sure now that they'd never known each other before the Grand Canyon. Their relationship was just a trick of the Mist in Piper's mind. But the longer he spent with her, the more he wished it had been real.

Rick Riordan

#62. Piper wasn't used to anyone intimidating her, but being in the presence of Phoebe Calebow was being in the presence of greatness.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#63. I've been thinking."
That snapped Piper back to the present. Coming from your boyfriend, I've been thinking was kind of a scary line.

Rick Riordan

#64. Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

Linda Gray

#65. I just ... ," Cath started again: "I realized that I'm not cut out for fiction-writing."
Professor Piper blinked and pulled her head back. "What are you talking about? You're exactly cut out for it. You're a Butterick pattern, Cath
this is what you were meant to do.

Rainbow Rowell

#66. Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.

Rick Riordan

#67. The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#68. Are you sure? You sound afraid." Said the Pied Piper to his subjects.

Pepper Winters

#69. Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.

Rick Riordan

#70. Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

Robert Browning

#71. Love is powerful, Piper. It can bring even the gods to their knees.

Rick Riordan

#72. Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.

James Joyce

#73. You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Robert Plant

#74. I ache and I think the only thing that will stop it is you f%#king me into the mattress."

"Okay, no more porn for you." Ray crawled onto the bed between Piper's thighs.

Piper snickered.

Jambrea Jo Jones

#75. Gods of Olympus." Piper stared at Leo. "What happened to you?"
His hair was greased back. He had welding goggles on his forehead, a lipstick mark on his cheek, tattoos all over his arms, and a T-shirt that read HOT STUFF, BAD BOY, and TEAM LEO.
"Long story," he said.

Rick Riordan

#76. Come on," Leo told Piper. "Let's invite the Maenads over to my place.

Rick Riordan

#77. This is Leo. I'm the ... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or ... "
"Repair boy."
"Very funny, Piper.

Rick Riordan

#78. God's got my picture,' Piper reiterated, 'taped right up there on his big, big, giiinormous fridge.' She smiled. 'Because he's crazy about me. And about you, too.

Candace Calvert

#79. Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.

Cynthia Ozick

#80. Pinkie swear?" Piper asked quietly, holding her tiny pinky finger in the air.
"How about we change it to Twinkie swear?

Beth Ehemann

#81. I fought side by side with the gods and some other demigod ... Harry Cleese, I think." "Heracles?" Piper suggested politely. "Whatever," Bacchus said. "Anyway, I

Rick Riordan

#82. If you call the tune, you also have to pay the piper when he begs his due.

Nick Cutter

#83. And then he got all religious on her. Very quickly.
- The Piper's Son

Melina Marchetta

#84. Okay, get out of here. Scram. Farewell," Piper said as more of the wall moved uneasily, the uppermost surface shifting dustily to the floor. "Go be short somewhere else.

Maggie Stiefvater

#85. Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us - long-range radar, still not in sight."
Piper leaned over the console. "Are you sure they're Roman?"
Leo rolled his eyes. "No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they're Roman!

Rick Riordan

#86. He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.

Rick Riordan

#87. Piper's advantages: she was small, she was quick, and she was absolutely insane.

Rick Riordan

#88. Piper gripped his hand and followed him, "If I fall, you're catching me." "Uh, sure." Jason hoped he wasn't blushing.
Leo stepped out next. "You're catching me, too, Superman. But I ain't holding your hand.

Rick Riordan

#89. Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper

Tony Alleyne

#90. Jason muttered "And I saw something ... Really terrible."
"That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon."
"That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-"
"Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up.

Rick Riordan

#91. Hail, Piper McLean," Chiron announced gravely, as if he were speaking at her funeral. "Daughter of Aphrodite, lady of the doves, goddess of love.

Rick Riordan

#92. See, the thing is Piper, it's really the only thing that's worth living for."
"Love,

Heather Hepler

#93. Dang! Look at that RAINBOW! Piper shouted, accidently spewing bits of apple pie from her overstuffed mouth. All quickly turned and saw ...
... exactly what Piper claimed, a rainbow.

Victoria Forester

#94. Worse still, he doesn't know how to follow the piper anymore because it's a path Tom has lost faith in.
And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father's eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes.

Melina Marchetta

#95. He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up.

Rick Riordan

#96. Piper nodded. She wished she had the healing powers of Asclepius. She wished she could look at people and see what was hurting them, then whip out her prescription pad and make everything better.

Rick Riordan

#97. Then again, Piper couldn't imagine choosing one demi god's life over another,

Rick Riordan

#98. He's looking at me. I can feel his eyes from across the yard, where he's losing a game of croquet to his niece, Piper. He's only pretending to try, I think, but it's hard to tell because I'm definitely not looking at him.

Jessica Martinez

#99. I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

Lena Headey

#100. The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.'
There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra?

D.J. Stutley