Rick Riordan Quotes

I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

Rick Riordan

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FriendMeBookLibraryNeverDays

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.

John C. Calhoun

GreatI AmWillBeliefOthersMore

I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.

Medgar Evers

TimeWalkWaitBlackSlowEnd

Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

Matthew Walker

BusinessInnovationCreativityEngine

You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.

Matt Haig

GratefulPeopleWorldYouUnderstand

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Angela Sarafyan

DayDancePoetryLookingLongYou

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

Steve Carell

PeopleWayPointSeenBeingEven

Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.

Trip Adler

WorldLibraryRealSameWebJust

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

Shimon Peres

ManParentsNegativeThoughtNothing

Death by starvation is slow.

Mary Hunter Austin

DeathSlowStarvation

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.

Diane Lane

TimeMeLongLong TimeKindGoing

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

Peter Hain

FuturePastPeacefulStatementIRA

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

Penn Jillette

PeopleYouKnowOutFreakTell

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