Quotes About Percy

the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.

How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.

Shelley was also the wife of the great poet and rotter Percy Bysshe Shelley.

If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

Percy lifted his shoulders in the faintest of Gallic shrugs. As you like, it said. And yet his eyes—they were still beautiful, damn him, dark and soft—rested on Grey with what seemed a genuine sympathy. Grey sighed. Doubtless it was genuine. Percy could not be trusted—not ever—but what he'd done had been done from weakness, not from malice, or even lack of feeling.

Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.

It is unlikely that Percy would have written my mother after her return from Europe, and, had she written, the letter would have been destroyed, since that family had a crusading detestation of souvenirs. Letters, photographs, diplomas—anything that authenticated the past was always thrown into the fire.

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears.The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;And all best things are thus confused with ill.

It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.

Most vain all hope but love. - Prometheus Unbound