Rick Riordan Quotes

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

Rick Riordan

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TodayTimeLookWonderTreasure

I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

Johann Lamont

MorningMyselfSpeakSaturdayGo

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

John Clute

TellFictionLocationExistBecause

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

Angela Carter

SunshineCaliforniaEveryoneContract

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Sidney Poitier

FatherManImportantClassPoor

Everyone has relationships. Breakups are hard. Everyone graduates from school.

Roger Ross Williams

SchoolRelationshipsHardEveryone

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.

Rocky Marciano

MyselfFaceFeelingUpCountGet

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Mary Wollstonecraft

WomenGovernmentWithoutShareBeing

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith

DayRichSoberDrinkBehaveStay

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Chuck Yeager

GrowPushYouBackKnowWant

Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Anthony Noto

TodayRisksManagementDriveThink

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

Austin Butler

MusicFunGuitarPlayPianoFilm

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

William P. Leahy

LightDayPoliceOrganizationWrong

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