Rick Riordan Quotes

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

I think, in moderation, taunting is a part of life.

I'm the one who is always bantering. Millie Bright and Rach Daly are pretty bad. Jill Scott is up there, too, but I'm probably the one who initiates it all, and people come back at me.

What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.

I can be sarcastic.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

I don't mean to be funny.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

If possible, be funny.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

I'm not serious most of the time.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.