Rick Riordan Quotes

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

It's amazing how little you can see people but still stay in regular contact.

Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

Doughboy, we need to talk.” Doughboy opened his wax eyes. “Finally! You realize how stuffy it is in there? At last you’ve remembered that you need my brilliant guidance.” “Actually we need to become a coat.

If you want to understand what I'm thinking further, come talk to me. It shouldn't be something that should be hidden. These conversations need to happen and can bring everybody closer.

I need to talk to Clarisse," Annabeth said. I stared at her as if she'd just said "I need to eat a large, smelly boot." "What for?

That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.