Rick Riordan Quotes

I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

I have a reputation for being pretty much of a wild man.

I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.

… foolhardy

I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.

I'm a bold man. I throw caution to the wind.

I live a wild and crazy life.

Trevor Murdoch is mad, bad and dangerous. He's the only man I know that can strap a bucket of fried chicken on his back and ride a motor scooter across Ethiopia.

There's a little daredevil inside of me.

I don't need anything to have a good time or be a hell-raiser. I was born one.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

But, though French, she was also very brave.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

One part brave, three parts fool!