Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics.… — Leander Paes Copy Share Image
Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
How innocent were these Trees, that in Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze, Stood garlanded and gay; Who now in sundown… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image