Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

Am I a troubled kid? Yeah, you could say that.

Rick Riordan

Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

Rick Riordan

No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.

Rick Springfield

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

Rick Springfield

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Rick Yancey

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

Rick Warren

I can't get my wife to agree with me on everything or my kids to agree with everything.

Rick Riordan

Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.

Rick Riordan

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

Rick Riordan

Travis: The Aphrodite kids were ripping each other’s clothes and throwing lipstick and jewellery. It was like a rabid herd of wild Bratz.

Rick Riordan

In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt. "It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered. "What?" Hazel asked. "The master bolt," Percy said. "What are you talking about?" "I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was gone. "Nothing, I guess.

Rick Riordan

Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his fighting. Even the Ares kids thought he was pretty cool. Hey, show up with an army of undead warriors to save the day, and suddenly you're everybody's best friend.

Rick Riordan

Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week.

Tristan Wilds

When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.

Trevor Hall

Ever since I was a young kid, I was always hungry for something. It was this thing inside me that no matter what I did, I couldn't satisfy it.

Trent Reznor

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

Tracey Ullman

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

Tori Kelly

I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

Torii Hunter

Now you have kids that say, 'I wanna be Torii Hunter one day.' Man, I love that.

Tori Spelling

I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

Tori Spelling

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

Steve Zahn

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

Steve Vai

I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

Steve Vai

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

Vince Staples

Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.

Vince Staples

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

Vince Staples

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

Vince Gill

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

Robert Goulet

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

Richie Ashburn

The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it.

Rue McClanahan

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

Sugar Ray Leonard

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian

Sugar Ray Leonard

This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.