Rick Riordan Quotes

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

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• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • America
  • Mistakes
  • Hell

• Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • You
  • Things
  • Influence

• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
  • Watch

• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Two
  • Abortion
  • Fence

• I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Cool

• As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Society

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Play

• Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Why
  • Service

• There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Legend

• There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I keep getting amazing things to bring to life. There's always something to discover with 'Dr. Bailey,' something that brings her home to the audience, something that makes people say, 'I know that woman. I work with that woman.' It's incredibly flattering and I'm still finding new things with her all the time.

  

  Chandra Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Movie
  • Texas

• If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Action
  • Support
  • Doubt

• I try not to put myself in horrible situations anymore.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul

• The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

  

  David Horsey
  • Money
  • Truth
  • American

• And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • Men
  • Black
  • Rain

• The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Fear
  • Confidence
  • Development

• All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

  

  Rick Riordan
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