Rick Riordan Quotes

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

What I most look forward to about traveling to MEMPHIS is the great food.

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.

We were very scared. Going to America was almost like going to the moon.

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers who might have different priorities than we ourselves have.

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

I remember playing a college in Michigan, and they all held up their hand to show me where they live, which made me wonder what weird alien cult I had entered.

If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.

A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.

I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.