Dungeons Quotes - Page 4

• It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.

  Washington Irving

  Real, Imagination, Solitude

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.208, e-artnow

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• Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Art, War, Princess

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• Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.

  Frances Osborne

  Father, Liberty, Ordinary

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• An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Thinking, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

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• I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Errors, Childhood, Inmates

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.172, Vintage

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• Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Cells, Voice, Solitude

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• Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Farewell, Son

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• We're making efforts regarding the total flow of the Zelda game. So far, the basic flow of the Zelda games is you're exploring a field, you go to a dungeon, you conquer it and return to the field. We're looking at altering that traditional flow. That's all I can share, and I can't say more until E3 next year.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Years, Games, Effort

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• A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

  Joanna Baillie

  Prayer, Blessing, Men

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.195

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• Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Art, Son

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

  Duncan Jones

  Growing Up, Fun, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't know how in the world he's going to do it. I have no idea. That was the first time it occurred to me that writing the story was roughly equivalent to Despereaux's descent into the dungeon. I was tremendously aware of that as I was writing. I thought, "I have to be brave or else I'm not going to be able to tell it." But it's the only way that I can write. If I know what's going to happen, I'm not interested in telling the story.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Writing, Here I Am

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Children, Book

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• Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

  Justin Torres

  Baby, Men, Rights

  Justin Torres (2012). “We the Animals”, p.96, Granta Books

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• I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch fairs, the football, ikebana courses, survival expeditions, Dungeons & Dragons nights, and it doesn't matter which of these I personally want to do — that is my job. That’s true research; otherwise, it would be a bit like masturbating.

  Ryan Gander

  Football, Jobs, Night

  "Art-Advising in 3 Acts". Interview with Alexandra Pechman, www.vulture.com. December 19, 2014.

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• In this [show] business you do something rock 'n' roll and then that's it, finished, heads roll. It's best not to take drugs, go to sex dungeons or cause controversy. And those who've done it - Russell Brand, Angus Deayton, whoever - they've really paid for it, even if what they've done is quite trivial.

  Konnie Huq

  Sex, Rocks, Drug

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

  Thomas Middleditch

  Dragons, Play, Gamer

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• It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

  Robin Sloan

  Reality, Dragons, Paper

  "Robin Sloan’s Low-Tech Triumph". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Men, Thieves

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1645, Delphi Classics

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• If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Purpose, Guarantees

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.53, Rodale

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• I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

  Daniel Handler

  Summer, Children, Book

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.

  Steve Coogan

  Mother, Book, Leave Me Alone

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• If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Men, Rescue, Careful

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• I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.

  Richard Kadrey

  Fighting, Dragons, Games

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