Rick Riordan Quotes

I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

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• Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Growth

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Know
  • Plans
  • Production

• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
  • Dance
  • Training

• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Careful
  • Adventures

• We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • People
  • Good
  • Medical

• I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Noise

• Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Knowledge
  • Study

• It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock
  • Used
  • Rhythm

• Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Fun
  • Man
  • Keys

• Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.

  

  Will Self
  • Real
  • Mean
  • Feelings

• Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Home
  • America
  • Education

• For the first time, I left Naples, left Campania. I discovered that I was afraid of everything: afraid of taking the wrong train, afraid of having to pee and not knowing where to do it, afraid that it would be night and I wouldn’t be able to orient myself in an unfamiliar city, afraid of being robbed. I put all my money in my bra, as my mother did, and spent hours in a state of wary anxiety that coexisted seamlessly with a growing sense of liberation.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Money
  • Afraid
  • Train

• I'm not crazy, i'm just sensitive

  

  Alex Goot
  • Crazy
  • Sensitive

• Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Alone
  • Problems
  • Resolved

• For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Guy

• Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

  

  Andrew Lord
  • Wonder
  • Sense
  • Disbelief

• I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Difference
  • Discovered
  • Jackson