Dragons Quotes - Page 12

• The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.

  Robin McKinley

  Dream, Writing, Magic

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• Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Land, Cabbage, Potatoes

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• Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, Enemy, Noble

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

  Loren Eiseley

  Principles, Firsts

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.60, Library of America

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• Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.

  Ray Winstone

  Dream, Jobs, Fighting

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• Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

  China Mieville

  Children, Book, People

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Talking, Bars

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them. It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them. "Congratulations, Harry!' she said beaming at him. "I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How do you feel now about the fairness of the scoring?" "Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Goodbye!

  J. K. Rowling

  Goodbye, Congratulations, Hands

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• Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fire, Impossible Things

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• Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Eagles, Horizon

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• I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

  Michael Ian Black

  Character, Warrior, Opportunity

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I like Aurora, Sleeping Beauty, because shes just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

  Ariana Grande

  Cute, Good Life, Sleep

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Adventure, Remember

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it.

  Kerry King

  Distance, Eagles, Wish

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• The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

  Earl Weaver

  Horse, Years, Chinese

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• For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers that include weather control and life creation. And they’re seen as kind, benevolent creatures. Funny. Every fairy tale I’d ever heard involving dragons starred daring knights trotting off to kill said dragons. Probably the real reason every time East meets West they get pissed off and throw tea in our faces.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Real, Knights, Weather

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Another One Bites The Dust: Book two in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

  E. Nesbit

  Sheep, People, Bed

  E. Nesbit (2016). “THE BOOK OF DRAGONS: 8 Dragon Tales from Edith Nesbit author The Railway Children”, p.54, Abela Publishing Ltd

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• My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Stars, Father

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

  Francis Bacon

  Moving, Science, Order

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.

  Sheryl Crow

  Want, Plastic, Chasing

  Song: A Change Would Do You Good, Album: Sheryl Crow, 1996

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• The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Ego, Within You

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.184, Anchor

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• I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

  Steven Johnson

  Sports, Games, People

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.8, Penguin

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• In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Philosophy, Sight, Dancing

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• Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

  Bryan Adams

  Philosophy, Men, Fire

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• He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

  George R. R. Martin

  Fire, Calm

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.446, Bantam

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