Dragons Quotes - Page 17

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

  Jill Johnston

  Passivity Is, Independence, Quests

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• The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Children, War, Blood

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• There weren't butterflies in my stomach, there were fire breathing dragons.

  Emme

  Butterfly, Fire, Breathing

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• I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

  Anna Kavan

  Telephones, Mets

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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• I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Night, Order

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• There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Art, Rocks, Ios

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.110, RosettaBooks

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• [How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.

  Gerard Butler

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is.   He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience.   He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

  Tea Leoni

  Pain, Expression, Play

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• Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.

  Dave Anthony

  Wings, Narcissism, Soar

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• Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Song, Heart, Blue

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

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• Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.

  Warren Farrell

  Weed, Teaching, Princess

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Elephants, India, China

  "India is a 'beehive', Rahul Gandhi tells India Inc". www.ndtv.com. April 4, 2013.

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• What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?

  Robert Jordan

  Hate, Enough, Reborn

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.148, Macmillan

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• On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.

  Robert Jordan

  Fire, Blood, Broken

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• Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

  Dogen

  Reality, Amazed

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• Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

  Mary McCarthy

  Eye, White, Venice

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside

  Ernesto Neto

  Fighting, Needs

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• Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hero, Winning, Gold

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• Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

  Howie Carr

  Running, Morning, Party

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• Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

  May Sarton

  Fighting, Joy, Holy

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.175, Open Road Media

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• A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Champion, Monsters

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.289, New World Library

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• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Philosophical, Cutting

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• How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.

  Mark Danner

  Democracy, Around The World, Mythical Beasts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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, Fields, Dungeons

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• I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

  Deon Cole

  Black, Want, Lasts

  "Deon Cole on Conan O'Brien's instincts and being chaperoned at a Prince concert". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 1, 2016.

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