Dragons Quotes - Page 18

• You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

  William Finnegan

  Past, Encounters, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  George Santayana

  People, Stupidity, Mind

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

  John Milton

  Spring, Book, Men

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

  Theophilus London

  Breathing, Fire, Years

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• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dust

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Discovery, Discipline, Honor

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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• I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Angel, Artist, Devil

  Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

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• A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Women, Wish

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.314

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• Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Lakes, Secret, Towers

  Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”

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• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

  Ezra Pound

  World, Ants, Centaurs

  Cantos no. 81, l. 144 (1948)

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• The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled.

  Russell Sherman

  Profound, Sound, Saint

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

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Stories, Made, Made It

  "Dragon (1993) review" by Joe Bob Briggs, www.joebobbriggs.com. July 18, 2010.

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• What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

  Naomi Novik

  War, Exciting, Napoleonic

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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.

  Ernest Cline

  Games, Office, Black

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• Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Real Life, Needs

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

  Alan Turing

  Principles, Benefits, Might

  Epigram to Robin Gandy in 1954. "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 513, 1992.

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• Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

  Brennan Manning

  Mother, Self, Shame

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.53, David C Cook

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• When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

  Aristotle

  Juice, Fruit, Bitter

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• Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Red, Ears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Wings, Bird, Alcohol

  Song: Junkie, Album: Down To Earth

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• All of a sudden I was Joan [Mad Man] and they're going, "Oh, so she plays a badass in this." And I'm like, "Oh my god, I get to play badasses." Firefly was a little bit of that, but she started out as a mouse and then she turned into a dragon. But I never really had that opportunity. So all of a sudden people were like, "Oh, do you feel like you're being typecast?" I would say, "No, this is just opening the doors." No one thought I could do it and someone finally trusted me to do it.

  Christina Hendricks

  Badass, Firefly, Opportunity

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wine, Men, Moon

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.322, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, War, Teaching

  "Why I Am Not a Christian".

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

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Frightened, Heal

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 20, 2016

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  Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Beauty

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