Rick Riordan Quotes

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.

I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.

Play with me and you play with fire.