Rick Riordan Quotes

To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Practice

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Years

• No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Interest
  • Gossip

• Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Life
  • American
  • Change

• I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

  

  Hadewijch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wish

• The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • World
  • Heart
  • Poverty

• It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Soul
  • Weird
  • Sounds

• Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Dark
  • Cold
  • Sad

• The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Water
  • Traveler
  • Mirages

• The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Great
  • Know
  • Community

• The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

  

  Confucius
  • Deeds
  • Great Man
  • Sparing

• There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Urban

• To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Reason
  • Appeal
  • Superheroes