Rick Riordan Quotes

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Even if I'm not a big guy, I have good footwork, I'm fast on the court, and I see the ball really early.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.

When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

And I feel faster than the speeding light.

I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids.

I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

I ran like a thing that runs.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.

How fast were you?" Wes asked me. I said, "Not that fast." "You mean you couldn't... fly?" he said, smiling at me.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.