Dragons Quotes

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

Dreams, Mind, Real

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Beautiful, Waiting, Brave

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Happiness, Fight, Order

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens

Age, Past, Chivalry

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James

Football, Team, Knew

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins

Ourselves, Heroes, Rescue

Americans are hidden dragons to me.
Ang Lee

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.
Margaret Atwood

Respect, Book, Find

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown

Means, Writer, Comic

There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
Maggie Smith

Yourself, Saying, Together

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.
Lev Grossman

Morning, Loved, Somebody

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.
Andrew Motion

Time, Another, Quiet

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

Around, Loved, Warrior

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
Jon Favreau

Nature, Person, Lazy

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
Victoria Beckham

Big, Keep, House

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
Anne McCaffrey

Life, Else, Tell

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.
China Mieville

Heart, Whole, Question

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.
Jonah Goldberg

Between, Honest, Difference

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.
Kerry King

Figure, Eagle, Slayer

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
Patrick Rothfuss

Work, Time, Writing

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Gary Gygax

Game, Real, Fire

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
John Howe

Fantasy, Fairy, Bridges

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
Pat Oliphant

Good, Old, Days

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