Rick Riordan Quotes

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

Rick Riordan

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Model

• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • School
  • Religious
  • Years

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Myself

• Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Sports

• I'm a real Luddite.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Real

• There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

  

  Amy Sedaris

• I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

  

  Lydia Ko
  • Up
  • Good
  • Golf

• I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

  

  bell hooks
  • Mother
  • House
  • Smile

• On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

  

  James Callis
  • Time
  • Why

• Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • People
  • Culture
  • Grandson

• The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Done
  • Theatre

• There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Question
  • Side
  • Harvard

• The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Value

• If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

  

  Jeff Hawkins
  • World
  • History
  • Understanding

• All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Good
  • Action
  • Evil

• Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Understanding
  • Ancient
  • Egyptian