Dan Cahill Quotes

#1. Dan Cahill thought he had the most annoying big sister on the planet. And that was before she set fire to two million dollars.

Rick Riordan

#2. Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker.
-Dan Cahill

Gordon Korman

#3. It isn't every day I get to meet a legend. Dan Cahill, I presume? - Dr. Tagamayer

Jude Watson

#4. There's a fine line between criminality and genius.
-Dan Cahill

Jude Watson

#5. Ninja Assasins Incorporated, Dan Cahill speaking. Who would you like offed today?

Clifford Riley

#6. Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world."
"Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."
The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.

Gordon Korman

#7. But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.

Anonymous

#8. We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!"
"Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.

Gordon Korman

#9. The scientific study of the vital relationship between infants and their mothers was started by upper-class Englishmen who were torn from their families as young boys to be sent off to boarding schools, where they were raised in regimented same-sex settings.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#10. Everyone's death means something,

Cassandra Clare

#11. The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.

Gordon Korman

#12. That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.

Rick Riordan

#13. Everyone is Annawadi talks like this- oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. -ABDUL'S FATHER, KARAM HUSAIN

Katherine Boo

#14. believe me when i say this.
when you love
someone.
you can
travel the world
in their laugh.

Sanober Khan

#15. P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

Rick Riordan

#16. It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

John Scofield

#17. Ah. Smart. The word had a very specific meaning, here in the valley.
A smart boy thought he knew more than his tutors, and answered back, and interrupted. A
smart boy was worse than a stupid one.

Terry Pratchett

#18. My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.

Maggie Wheeler

#19. Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.

Gordon Korman

#20. I understand what motivates them. Greed is such a universal thing, especially when combined with laziness.

Uvi Poznansky

#21. Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

Michael Jackson

#22. The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

Philip Warren Anderson

#23. Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

C.S. Lewis

#24. Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris.
"Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.

Rick Riordan

#25. Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!"
Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers.
"Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?

Rick Riordan

#26. Slime him, sis," Dan urged, "Make him a redcoat.

Gordon Korman

#27. C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!

Jude Watson

#28. No!" Amy said. "Dan, you're lucky it was only concussive. You could've wiped out the whole Holt family."
"And that would've been bad because ... ?

Rick Riordan

#29. In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Alexander Smith

#30. My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

Dylan O'Brien

#31. With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

Jude Watson

#32. Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants.
"So, really, I saved the day," he decided.
"Wait a minute," Amy said, "I climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm."
"Yeah, but the clue was in my pants.

Rick Riordan

#33. And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are ... capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

Dan Brown