Ridley Pearson Quotes

Been stolen from Finn

So does that mean we get Eric, too?" Willa said. "Because Eric is definitely hot, and if I had my choice I'd take Eric over some white-haired king merman any day.

The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.

If you don't beleve in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars.

Mistake number one: don't ever expect a woman to do what you think she's going to do.
Mistake number two: don't ever tell her what to do because that's a surefire way of making sure she doesn't. - cowboy John

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right ...

Few battles are won by strength alone. Cunning and knowing your resources can help you overpower the most powerful.

It's true, I'm impressed with myself, almost daily. If I don't impress myself then how am I ever to feel accomplished?"
"Who cares if you impress others?"
"Indeed. Others' opinions hardly matter, but one's own sense of accomplishment is paramount, is it not?

Always trust computer games.

Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up."
"Shut up!"
-Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
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When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses
that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

You want to feel sorry for him, but he was his own undoing.

If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner

That's right," Philby said, remembering. "You're a computer freak, aren't you, Maybeck?"
"Freak? I'm freaking good with them, if that's what you're asking.

The crowd groaned. "Nice job doofus!" Finn said.

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.

Also not the kind of place to hide a server."
"Is that another pun?" She asked.
"No! I swear! I didn't mean that one."

~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

Maybe we all dream pieces of the future but just don't happen to know it.

Amazing things happen when we put our minds to it. There is a saying that seeing is believing. But believing is seeing, as well. And touching. And hearing. Connecting.

Finn stood away from all the water with his friend Dillard, who had taken the occasion to borrow one of his father's Hawaiian shirts. Finn thought he looked pretty cool.

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

The "rain" was nothing more than the emergency sprinkler system gone wild. All this trouble could be easily explained: the sprinklers malfunctioning. Maleficent had done her job well.

One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

You can't get any 'cooler' than Disney World.

Not every story is true," he said. "Not every rumor is false.

We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in.
There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley.
Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

The Power Poker lottery would be won by a person having no ties to any Chicago street gangs or terrorists - Joe Normal.

Hey, if you don't believe in yourself, then who will?

Smee, you are a supreme idjit."
"Aye, Cap'n.

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to uh-oh.

So planning something big."
"If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it."
"It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them.
"You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.

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SHUT UP!...PADLE!

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Okay, so let's run faster.

I... do... not... do... lightning.

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?