Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.
RICK RIORDANGood luck, boss. Don’t let’em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)
More Rick Riordan Quotes
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Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. “No such thing as fair,” Frank told himself. “If I’m going to burn, it might as well be bright.
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Nice creepy reptile,” Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. “Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.
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Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
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Young people don’t always do what they’re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
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I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry.
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I have more ideas than I’ll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.
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Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
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Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.
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Whathat!” Tyson gasped. “Those are the stables for the pegasi,” I replied, “You know, winged horses?” “Whasthat!” “Um… those are the toilets.
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Good luck, boss. Don’t let’em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)
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Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations
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Our baboon was going completely sky goddess – which is to say, nuts.
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It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus
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Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don’t have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.
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Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.
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