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Quotes About Humor

anyway. Leo said, I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again?
~ Rick Riordan
I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear... ?!?!
~ Rick Riordan
Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck.
~ Rick Riordan
I whistled. You have evil thoughts for a goat.
~ Rick Riordan
If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
~ Rick Riordan
You kidding? So many preservatives in these things, I'll live forever.
~ Rick Riordan
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt.
~ Rick Riordan
I imagined she was going to say, You killed a Minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that. Instead she said, You drool when you sleep.
~ Rick Riordan
All [Sadie's] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one's self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last week she'd created a magical Thermos with googly eyes that levitated around the room, yelling, "Exterminate! Exterminate!" until it smacked me in the head.
~ Rick Riordan
Then something occurred to me. Get closer, I told Blackjack. He whinnied in protest. Just within shouting distance, I said. I need to talk to the statue. Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said
~ Rick Riordan
Julius told me how much you'd grown, but I couldn't believe it. Carter, I bet you're shaving—" "Mom." "—and dating girls—" "Mom!" Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
~ Rick Riordan
Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your...
~ Rick Riordan
the answer to every problem involved penguins
~ Rick Riordan
June cackled with delight, muttering, Whoops! as a car almost killed them.
~ Rick Riordan
I'M PRETTY GOOD at multitasking, so I figured I could flee in terror and argue at the same time.
~ Rick Riordan
I turned to Alex. 'Hey, are you female today?' 'Hold on... There! Now I'm female.' My expression must have been priceless. Alex burst out laughing. 'I'm kidding. Yes, I'm female today. She and her.
~ Rick Riordan
If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.
~ Rick Riordan
Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know.
~ Rick Riordan
The thing about talking swords…it's hard to tell when they're kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.
~ Rick Riordan
You're already married! Hera protested. To me! Curses! said Zeus. Er, I mean, of course, dear.
~ Rick Riordan
We're burning," Sadie pointed out helpfully. "Noticed!" I yelled back.
~ Rick Riordan
Oh, god," I said. "Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?" --Sadie to Zia
~ Rick Riordan
We only came close to dying six or seven times which I thought was pretty good. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately that something was my face.
~ Rick Riordan