Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then.

J. R. R. Tolkien

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Jeaniene Frost

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!

Jill Johnston

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

Gary Zukav

Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

George Santayana

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

Jeanette Winterson

Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.

Jeaniene Frost

All hail the dragon slayer!" (Bones)

George R. R. Martin

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

George R. R. Martin

...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

George R. R. Martin

You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.

Ezra Pound

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

Francis Bacon

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Andrew Wyatt

I used to produce this band, Dragons of Zynth. There's something about their live shows, which, to me, is ultimate. I mean, you feel like somebody could get hurt when you go see them live.

Tony Shalhoub

I've sort of been able to expand the playing field a little bit, I think it's long overdue. But I still feel like I have a lot of dragons to slay as an actor and I want to keep doing that,

It's up to the Dragons to have a good look at where they want to be in five or 10 years time,

Ernest Cline

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

Cassandra Clare

Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct.

Cassandra Clare

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

Eoin Colfer

Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

Eoin Colfer

Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it." Foaly: "Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark?" Orion: "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

Stephen Colbert

It was, actually. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons the first week it was introduced to the market - at least the first week it was introduced down here.

Jon Stewart

Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.

R. A. Salvatore

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.

Joe Bob Briggs

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

Joseph Campbell

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

Peter Jackson

I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are more than true ...

Nancy Farmer

Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

John Green

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.