"The boys had asked why, if it acted……" — Ridley Pearson
"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."
—
Ridley Pearson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
34 Quotes by Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson has 34 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the…
-
When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I…
-
True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it…
-
Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....
-
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It…
-
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or…
-
I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was…
-
I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.
-
I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.
-
The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
-
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast…
-
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways…
See all 34 quotes by Ridley Pearson »
More Acted Quotes
This quote is filed under Acted Quotes,
one of 403 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
-
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I acted in millions of TV shows.
— Sebastian Bach
-
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
— Berenice Abbott
-
I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
— Theodore Bikel
-
In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
— Jo Brand
-
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
— Louis D. Brandeis
-
I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake…
— Sandra Bullock
-
I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
— Steve Buscemi
-
I've acted professionally since I was 16.
— Nicolas Cage
-
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it…
— Giacomo Casanova
-
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
— Salman Rushdie
See all 403 Acted Quotes »