Rick Riordan Quotes

Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.

Boy, do I hate to lose.

Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help".

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.

Emotions run high when you have a bad day; you can't hide it.

Each time I wake,I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.

Not the outcome any of us wanted.

I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.

I can't stand what people do to each other. I think we're brilliant as a species. I think we are amazing. I think that God is incredible, that He just gave us everything. Everything in our face. Everything for us to use. And sometimes we're such shitheads. And it makes me crazy.

It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.