Rick Riordan Quotes

The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

One of the things that I do that I've found from being newly married is that my husband and I, we go in the bathroom and brush our teeth together. And that's when we talk about what's going on in the day, so we get to bond that way.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

There's a different feeling when you've played with musicians for 30 years. A lot of stuff doesn't even need to be said, especially onstage. We just read each other so well.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.

Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'

When one twin is in need or hurt, the other twin definitely knows it. It really helps us being a successful tag team.

The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.

Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

Pretty much everybody loves music. Like, there are those weird people that don't like music, and I don't really understand that at all, to be honest.

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.