“Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.”
Source: The Red Pyramid
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Rick Riordan 1402
American writer 1964Related quotes

God doesn't believe in atheists (2002)

78
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)

“In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.”
The Ayrshire Legatees (Edinburgh: Blackwood, [1821] 1823) pp. 163-4.

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

Discussing the 1967 Apollo 1 fire and 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster incidents — reported in The Deseret News staff (May 7, 1995) "Even Cosmos Is Aghast at Size of Earthly Egos", The Deseret News, p. A2.

Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
Maxim 586, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Destiny was apparently a word describing an individual’s desperate need for certainty.”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 12 (p. 349)