Humor Quote by Rick Riordan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind!”

“But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!”

“[Leo] lunged at Passalos, but the red-furred dwarf was too quick. He sprang from his chair, bounced off Jason’s head, did a flip, and landed next to Leo, his hairy arms around Leo’s waist.”

“Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.”

“Does truth have a moral?”

“I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?”

“Don't leave it all unsaid,”

“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”

“Percy was getting tired of water.”

“Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.”

“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”