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

“Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.”

“Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.”

“Hmm…” Jason snapped his fingers. “I can call a friend for a ride.”

“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.”

“Leo lowered his screwdriver. He looked at the ceiling and shook his head like, What am I gonna do with this guy?”

“The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.”

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”

“Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.”

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

“I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”

“I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.”

“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?”