Rick Riordan Quotes

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Rick Riordan

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• It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Lose
  • Head
  • Championships

• Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Welfare
  • Liberal
  • Signing

• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Day

• Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Community

• Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Country
  • Market
  • Marine

• I don't hold grudges.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Hold
  • Grudges

• To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Know

• Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Remember
  • Lies
  • Smile

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Potent
  • Vigorous
  • Virile

• If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Think
  • You
  • Evil

• The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I guess I'm a born ham.

  

  Marta Kristen

• There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Important
  • Dad

• Politics is just show business for ugly people.

  

  Jay Leno
  • People
  • Business
  • Ugly

• So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether it's working to nail down our renewables, whether it's ensuring great efficiency in accessing all of our energy sources.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Great
  • Energy

• If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

  

  Christa McAuliffe
  • Time
  • Husband

• In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

  

  Ian McLeod

• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

  

  Macy Gray
  • House
  • Deep
  • Red

• Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Personality
  • End

• When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.

  

  Astrid Berges-Frisbey
  • Attention

• I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Readers