Dragons Quotes - Page 23

• If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Uncles, Doors, Giving

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", en.wikiquote.org. 2001.

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• You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Law, People

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• If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Vampire, Want

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• Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Evil, Creative

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

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• It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

  Tori Amos

  Letting Go, Journey, Calling

  "Tori Amos puts new spin on old songs for 'Gold Dust'". Interview with Christine Kearney, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 25, 2012.

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• How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.

  Bryan Davis

  Goodbye, True Friend, Angel

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• We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time." "Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad." Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror. "Gosh," he said.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Expression, People

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

  Francis Bacon

  Want, Serpent, Ifs

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• it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Believe, Easy, Easier

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Swings, Groups

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• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  Madeleine Albright

  Laughing, Stories, Lines

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• There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Barbarians, Enough, Spit

  Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "I live for agressive 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?" wondered Foaly. "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

  Eoin Colfer

  Secret, Orion, May

  "Artemis Fowl The Atlantis Complex". Book by Eoin Colfer, July 20, 2010.

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• I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

  Terry Pratchett

  Talking, Guy, Add

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• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  Yoko Ono

  Powerful, Animal, Kind

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• I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Girl, Running, Strong

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• I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.

  Elmore Leonard

  Tattoo, Girl, Thrill

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• Holly is alive,' thought Foaly 'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon

  Eoin Colfer

  Princess, Hollies, Alive

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.120, Penguin UK

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• I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Princess, Doubt

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• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  A. N. Wilson

  Monsters, Giants, Stories

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• But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.

  Rick Riordan

  People

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• We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

  Matt Groening

  Stars, War, Doctors

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• Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.

  Kris Wu

  Your Side, Sides, Forget

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• I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

  Julie Kagawa

  Reading, Kids, Bookworms

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• One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Jars, Cups

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.790, Bantam

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