Rick Riordan Quotes

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person.

Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips Over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

I'm very ditsy and a klutz. I've been known to walk on stage and fall over my dress.

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.

I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge.

I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

A man falls down a flight of stairs and somebody rushes over to him and asks, Did you miss a step? No, he answers, I hit every one of them!

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

I used to run into lampposts. That was my party trick.

When I'm not focused, I'm quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I'll walk into doorways and coffee tables.

Umm thanks for the phone. I think I already broke it.

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.